Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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.
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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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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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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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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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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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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 unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.