Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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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.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
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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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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
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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 grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
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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.