Top 100 Doyle's Quotes
#1. Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. It's impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle's world.
Gordon Dahlquist
#3. Except you never knew when you faced the last of anything. That was a universal truth I wished I didn't understand. That ridiculous curl on Doyle's forehead came back
Anonymous
#4. If all else perish, there will remain8 a story-teller's world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of veranda and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming.
Selina Shirley Hastings
#5. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.
Will Thomas
#6. When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.
Glenn Quinn
#7. He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri", the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#9. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#10. If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Roddy Doyle
#11. If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
Jerry Doyle
#12. Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me. It's hotter than hell, and the children and I have already had a whole lot of togetherness.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#13. Where's your warrant?" asked McGinty. "By Gar! a man might as well live in Russia as in Vermissa while folk like you are running the police. It's a capitalist outrage, and you'll hear more of it, I reckon.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#14. I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#15. Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
Roddy Doyle
#17. To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
Jerry Doyle
#20. It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
Roddy Doyle
#21. The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#22. There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end.
Glenn Quinn
#23. I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#24. Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#25. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a filed for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#26. John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.
Patti LuPone
#27. Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#29. Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#30. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.
Jerry Doyle
#32. It's wrong to say that animals do not feel what we feel; indeed, they may feel far more than we do and in far different emotional shades.
Brian Doyle
#33. The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#34. Are you sure that's Val?"
"No," said Freddie. "It's Lassie in a wolf suit.
Debra Doyle
#35. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exagerate one's own powers.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#36. Mutual surrender, maybe that's an act of love. Surrendering to this thing that's bigger than we are: this love, this pain. The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#37. Good-bye, Pen Leland. If we meet again, maybe in London next season, you'll pardon me if I don't pursue an acquaintance with you. It's hard to chat about the weather when one's heart is breaking -
Marissa Doyle
#38. Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
Jim Doyle
#39. I'm not killing myself, I think as I open the door. I'm just not doing what's required to live. There has to be a difference. I
Glennon Doyle Melton
#40. Be critical, fine, that's fair. But don't be cruel. Every damn one of us knows the difference.
If you are not kind on the internet, then you're not kind.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#41. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#42. 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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#43. It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages.
Roddy Doyle
#44. She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.
Roddy Doyle
#45. I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#46. In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.
Raul Garcia
#47. The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain ... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
Jeremy Brett
#48. It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#49. You're too late. She's my wife."
"No, she's your widow."
His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. I consider the possibility that I've been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else's idea of what those words mean.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#53. It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#54. It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.
Doyle Brunson
#55. I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Ha-Joon Chang
#57. It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone's soul without them knowing.
Catherine Doyle
#58. Here's my hunch: nobody's secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#59. I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen
Roddy Doyle
#60. There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#61. The one closest to the departed has to be the first one to step from despair to hope. Nobody else is allowed to jump ahead and shove open the door. That's the rule.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#62. This felt like that. Hollow and painful on the inside. So bad that you wanted to cut yourself and watch the blood spill out so there would be a visible representation of what you were feeling.
S. Doyle
#63. No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck - no woman is that cool - she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#64. Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to decide what's for some, that others should hide. Pride. Nobody gets to choose but YOU.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#65. He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It's a gentleman's game. Don't you ever forget that.
Ken Doyle
#66. It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle
#68. So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it's pain? What if it's the struggle?
Glennon Doyle Melton
#69. A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#70. It's true that you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#73. Persevere. Bear with great patience each other's infirmities of body or behavior. And when the thorns of contention arise, daily forgive, and be ready to accept forgiveness.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#74. Redhead, built in a way made you sure God's a man." "It didn't work out between you?" "For a while it did. She wasn't shy about using what she had. She wasn't shy about anything," Doyle added with a grin.
Nora Roberts
#75. Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.
Rex Stout
#76. That's the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don't.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#77. You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#78. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.
Roddy Doyle
#80. I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
Roddy Doyle
#81. If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now
a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#82. There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.
Doyle Brunson
#83. There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.
James Lipton
#84. It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle
#85. That's how you can tell that you're filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#86. The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'
William Doyle
#87. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#88. I'm horrible with names" He said "I'm still not sure what your is. You say Blake, but I'm pretty sure it's like Bob. Or Sanchez
C.L.Stone
#89. It's amazing how much power each of us has when it comes to how we make other people feel about themselves. Whether we realize it or not, we have the ability to affect and shape people, for better or for worse. I hope I never abuse my power.
Krista Doyle
#90. People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in America's schools. I'm baffled by their shock, and I'm concerned about what's not being addressed in their proposed solutions.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#91. But ... you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.
Libba Bray
#92. I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
Henning Mankell
#93. There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.
Catherine Doyle
#94. The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.
Mark Gatiss
#95. You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
Christopher Doyle
#96. The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
Doyle Brunson
#97. When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.
Jerry Doyle
#98. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#99. Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.
Jim Doyle
#100. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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