Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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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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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
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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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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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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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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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What a lovely thing a rose is!
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.