Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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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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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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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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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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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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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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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.