Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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The soul is swayed by the waters.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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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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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
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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.
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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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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...
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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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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.