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Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same.- S. H. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously ...
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is only goodness which gives extra...
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I followed you.'I saw no one.'
That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. — Arthur Conan Doyle
THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Be frank with me and we may do some good. Play tricks with me, and I'll crush you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." I
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let us see if there is justice uponthe earth, or if we are ruled by chance — Arthur Conan Doyle
THE PROBLEM OF THOR BRIDGE
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience.- Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Make the matter even more terrible than the truth
— Arthur Conan Doyle
- I have come for advice.- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.
#The Five Orange Pips — Arthur Conan Doyle
You seem to have powers that are hardly human,
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I never remember feeling tired by work. though idleness exhausts me completely.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE VALLEY OF FEAR
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Men scorn what they don't understand".
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Goethe is always pithy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account,
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
They knew each other very wellso well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No violence, gentlemen - no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and
— Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Indeed!" I murmured.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
asked Musgrave, pushing back the relic into its linen bag. "'Ah, there you lay
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.The Man from Archangel — Arthur Conan Doyle
The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The game is afoot.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You are aware - or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware - that
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
explained is the statement
— Arthur Conan Doyle
With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.
— Will Thomas
Who are you, then?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes." "Good Lord!" "You have heard of me, I see.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.
— David Baldacci
When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE GABLES
— Arthur Conan Doyle
By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.
— John Buchan
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
— Arthur Conan Doyle