Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
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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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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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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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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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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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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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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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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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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.