Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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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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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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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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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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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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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.
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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.