Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
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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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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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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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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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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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 dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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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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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
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I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.