Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously ...
The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths.
My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.
What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.
I would not tell them too much," said Holmes. "Women are never to be entirely trusted, - not the best of them.
Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation.
In the deep shadow of the tree there was a deeper shadow yet, black, inchoate, vague - a crouching form full of savage vigor and menace. It
There was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their
It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world.
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.
Then he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward in his side. He was dead.
It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.
Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.
When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.
I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
Everything comes in circles. [ ... ] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
- I have come for advice.
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.
#The Five Orange Pips
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.
#The Five Orange Pips
Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist?
They were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.
A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place,
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-morrow' said he.