Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.
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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
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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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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
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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 see, but you do not observe.
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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 are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
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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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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.