Top 8 The Game Is Afoot Quotes
#2. When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.
Evelyn Cullet
#4. Quickly, Watson, the game's afoot, I said, but Deborah was not in a literary mood.
Jeff Lindsay
#5. The game's afoot, Watson, or quite possibly thirteen inches
Ian Jarvis
#6. No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.
Emma Jane Holloway
#7. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#8. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry - God for Harry! England and Saint George!
William Shakespeare
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