Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Courage was never designed for show;It isn't a thing that can come and go;It's written in victory and defeatAnd every trial a man may meet.It's part of his hours, his days and his years,Back of his smiles and behind his tears.Courage is more than a daring deed:It's the breath of life and a strong man's creed.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • May
  • Strong

• It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Reality
  • Do It
  • No-Fail

• I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika

• The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

  

  Dennis Wilson
  • Great
  • Wonder

• I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

  

  Alia Bhatt

• I'm going to be more critical of myself than anyone could ever be.

  

  Draymond Green

• I have been able to sniff out a phony.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge

• Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Sex

• If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Snake
  • Flies
  • Slander

• I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Persons
  • Injustice
  • Sensitive

• The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Human

• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Understand
  • Existence
  • Laws

• So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

  

  William Morris
  • Forgiveness
  • Strive
  • Bliss

• Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Families
  • Accidents
  • Occur

• I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Family
  • Church
  • Certain

• The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

  

  John Calvin
  • Mother
  • Human Heart
  • Factory Of Idols

• He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Die
  • Hunger
  • Fed

• To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Decision
  • Environment
  • Motivated

• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Film
  • Flower
  • Aging

• Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Cases
  • Notes
  • Methods

• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Bottle
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Mantel-piece

• It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Yawn