Arthur Conan Doyle Moriarty Quotes

#1. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.

John Prendergast

#3. I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

Rick Smolan

#5. In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?" said he. "Never.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Moriarty: ... everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

Adolph Gottlieb

#13. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

Andrew Bird

#15. From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. [Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

A.J. Darkholme

#21. Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

William J. Clinton