Key quotations — The Sign of Four — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The Sign of Four, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'rebels at stagnation', 'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science', 'The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning', 'when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth', 'A wondrous subtle thing is love', 'which never brought anything but a curse yet upon the man who owned it', 'Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it?', 'I tell you that it is four or none with us', 'Whoever had lost a treasure, I knew that night that I had gained one' and 'there still remains the cocaine-bottle'.
