Quotes Tagged With :conan

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom....

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]....

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the....

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless....

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,....

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.....

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the....

Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned....

On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation....