【整理】重新收集福尔摩斯经典语录

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上帝保佑我们！为什么命运老是对贫困穷苦而又孤立无援的芸芸众生那么恶作剧呢？我每当听到这一类的案件时，我都想起巴克斯特的话，并说，‘歇洛克·福尔摩斯之所以能破案还是靠上帝保佑。’。——《博斯科姆比溪谷秘案》
God help us. Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'.—— The Boscombe Valley Mystery

我们追求，我们想抓住。可最后我们手中剩下什么东西呢？一个幻影，或者比幻影更糟——痛苦。——《退休的颜料商》
We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow — misery.—— The Retired Colorman

那是灯塔， 我的伙计！未来的灯塔！每一座灯塔里都装满千百颗光辉灿烂的小种子，将来英国在他们这一代将更加明智富强。——《海军协定》
Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future.—— The Naval Treaty

……啊，玫瑰花这东西多么可爱啊！……天下事没有比宗教更需要推理法的了。……推理法可能被推理学者们逐步树立为一门精密的学科。按照推理法，据我看来，我们对上帝仁慈的最高信仰，就是寄托于鲜花之中。因为一切其它的东西：我们的本领，我们的愿望，我们的食物，这一切首先都是为了生存的需要。而这种花朵就迥然不同了。它的香气 和它的色泽都是生命的点缀，而不是生存的条件。只有仁慈才能产生这些不凡的品格。所以我再说一遍，人类在鲜花中寄托着巨大的希望。——《海军协定》
What a lovely thing a rose is!……There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,……It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. —— The Naval Treaty


华生老兄！你真是多变的时代里固定不变的时刻。会刮东风的。这种风在英国还从来没有刮过。这股风会很冷，很厉害，华生。这阵风刮来，我们好多人可能就会凋谢。但这依然是上帝的风。风暴过去后，更加纯洁、更加美好、更加强大的国土将屹立在阳光之下。——《最后致意——歇洛克·福尔摩斯的收场白》
Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Start her up, Watson, for it's time that we were on our way. I have a check for five hundred pounds which should be cashed early, for the drawer is quite capable of stopping it if he can. —— His Last Bow — An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes


我不同意有些人把谦虚列为美德。对逻辑学家来说，一切事物应当是什么样就是什么样，对自己估价过低和夸大自己的才能一样都是违背真理的。——《希腊译员》
I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one`s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one`s own powers.—— The Greek Interpreter

笑骂由你，我自为之；家藏万贯，唯我独赏。——《血字的研究》，引自罗马守财奴
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.——A Study in Scarlet，from the Roman Miser

对于一个缺乏耐心的世界来说，坚韧而耐心地受苦，这本身就是最可宝贵的榜样。《带面纱的房客》
The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world. ——The Veiled Lodger

如有时间请立即前来——如无时间亦来。Ｓ.Ｈ．——《爬行人》
Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same. S. H. ——The Creeping Man

……请想，那些追求物质、官能和世俗享受的人都延长了他们无价值的生命，而追求精神价值的人则不愿违背更高的召唤。结果是最不适者的生存，这样一来，世界岂不变成了污水池吗？——《爬行人》
Consider, ……that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become？——The Creeping Man


一个人要是想超过自然，他就会堕落到自然以下。最高等的人，一旦脱离了人类命运的康庄大道，就会变成动物。——《爬行人》
When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny. ——The Creeping Man

The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well.——PREFACE，His Last Bow
歇洛克·福尔摩斯先生的朋友们将高兴地得悉，他仍然健在。——《最后致意 序言》

And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance. ——PREFACE,The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
所以，读者们，还是让福尔摩斯 与诸位告别吧！我对诸君以往给我的信任无限感激，在此谨希望我赠 给的消遣良法可以报答诸君，因为小说幻境乃是避世消愁的唯一途径。——《新探案·序言》

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