Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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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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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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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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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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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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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
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The fair sex is your department.