Jacques Futrelle > Quotes

“Dos y dos son cuatro, pero no a veces, ¡Sino siempre!”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine

“logic is inevitable.”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine on the Case

“I don’t disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch,” and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. “I don’t even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don’t know. It is necessary, in the solution of material problems, to work from a material basis, and then the things which are conjured up by fear and-and failure to understand may be dissipated.”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine Mysteries: A Collection of Professor Van Dusen Stories

“I have never seen a man in love,” he mused, “who wasn’t in trouble.”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine Mysteries: A Collection of Professor Van Dusen Stories

“I don’t disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch,” and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. “I don’t even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don’t know. It”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine Mysteries: A Collection of Professor Van Dusen Stories

“revolver, thirty-eight caliber,”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

“I don’t deny anything until I know,” was the response. “I don’t know that there is a supernatural force; therefore,” and he shrugged his slender, stooping shoulders, “I work only from a material basis. If this manuscript states facts, then”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine Mysteries: A Collection of Professor Van Dusen Stories

“automobile mask,”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

“It’s all out in the Back Bay,” the reporter explained. “There is a big apartment house there, a fashionable establishment, in a side street, just off Commonwealth Avenue. It is five stories in all, and is cut up into small suites, of two and three rooms with a bath. These suites are handsomely, even luxuriously furnished, and are occupied by people who can afford to pay big rents. Generally these are young unmarried men, although in several cases they are husband and wife. It is a house of every modern improvement, elevator service, hall boys, liveried door men, spacious corridors and all that. It has both the gas and electric systems of lighting. Tenants are at liberty to use either or both.”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

“swishing of her skirts”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

“My blood is become water; youth is frozen into senility; all things worth while are gone.”
― Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine Mysteries: A Collection of Professor Van Dusen Stories