Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
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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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"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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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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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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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.