“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a
frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people
have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.” — Sherlock Holmes in
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
(I can’t imagine how many actors have played
Sherlock Holmes on stage, radio, film and TV. But I find it hard to think of
anyone else in the role of the Victorian detective besides the peerless
character actor Basil Rathbone, shown here in costume.)
“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a
frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people
have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.” — Sherlock Holmes in
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
“Now remember, as far as anyone knows we're a nice,
normal family.” — Homer Simpson (voice of
Dan Castellaneta), in The Simpsons,
Season 1, Episode 4, “There's No Disgrace Like Home,” original air date Jan. 28, 1990, teleplay by Mike Reiss
and Al Jean, directed by Kent Butterworth and Gregg Vanzo
“Children of the same family, the same blood, with
the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their
power, which no subsequent connexions can supply.”—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
