Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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The soul is swayed by the waters.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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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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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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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.