Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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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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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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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 is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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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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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
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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’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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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.