Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.
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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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
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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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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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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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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.
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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.