Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.
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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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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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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
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Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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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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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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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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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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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 never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.