"You’ve never really lived until you play with something dangerous enough to kill you."( You want to know how I got these scars? )
“A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.”-- Zag @ ShahirZag
“His chief of staff is Colonel Sebastian Moran, as aloof and guarded and inaccessible to the law as himself. What do you think he pays him?”
“I’d like to hear.”
“Six thousand a year. That’s paying for brains, you see — the American business principle. I learned that detail quite by chance. It’s more than the Prime Minister gets. That gives you an idea of Moriarty’s gains and of the scale on which he works.”-- Arthur Conan Doyle Valley of Fear
“Some chase women, some chase opium dragons, some chase pots of gold. Dammit, some chase postage stamps or currant buns. I chase these edge-of-life-and-death moments—when an animal or man tries to kill me, and I kill them instead. It’s the surge inside—in the water, behind the eyes, in the loins. That’s what Basher Moran’s about. All the rest is fancy trimming.”-- Sebastian Moran Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
“Colonel Sebastian Moran,” Moriarty continued, “is probably the most dangerous man in London. I have used him for a couple of assignments, and he has performed well. The colonel is intelligent, diligent, and obeys orders, but he is as unstable as a bottle of nitro-glycerine.”- Michael Kurland, Death by Gaslight
I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
A tiger dies and leaves his skin; a man dies and leaves his name.- Japanese Proverb
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.- George Bernard Shaw
