Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
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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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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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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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What a lovely thing a rose is!
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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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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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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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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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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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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.