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The Hound of the Baskervilles quotes
14 quotes from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #2852 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
— Spoken by a character · 3. The Problem
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
— Spoken by a character · 5. Three Broken Threads
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
— Spoken by a character · 3. The Problem
If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
— Spoken by a character · 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Say, rather, into the region where we balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
— Spoken by a character · 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”
— Spoken by a character · 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
— Spoken by a character · 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
— Spoken by a character · 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
— Spoken by a character · 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Spoken by a character · 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.
“To a collector of fairy tales.”
— Spoken by a character · 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
— Spoken by a character · 15. A Retrospection