Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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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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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’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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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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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
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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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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.