Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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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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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.
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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 of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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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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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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The soul is swayed by the waters.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.