Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
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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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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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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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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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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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Violence recoils on the violent.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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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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I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.