Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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The soul is swayed by the waters.
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
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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.
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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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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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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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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.
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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid.
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...