Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.
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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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My dear Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
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You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper.
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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "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.
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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
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Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.
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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
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It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.