Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy – those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.