Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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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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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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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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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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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.
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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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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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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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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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Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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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.