Moriarty sayings

Here are a few famous sayings attributed to the fictional character Professor James Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

1. "The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime."

2. "Every great movement in the history of thought has passed through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption."

3. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid? I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

4. "I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."

5. "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

6. "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

7. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."

8. "Crime is common. Logic is rare."

9. "The criminal should be recognized as a type rather than an individual."

10. "There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him."

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