Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.


Works: A study in sarlet. The valley of fear (ed. 1930)

Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some...

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some...

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some...

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some...