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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 upon
the 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 well
so 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 plan
If 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