Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.
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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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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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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's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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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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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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Anything is better than stagnation.