Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his...
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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.