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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I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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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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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'
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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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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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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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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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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.
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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 never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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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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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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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.