Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.
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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.
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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
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Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
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Everything comes in circles... The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.