Mrs Doyle Quotes

#1. Terror. That was it.

Roddy Doyle

#2. There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. 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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

Shawn Doyle

#6. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

Libba Bray

#13. If you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.

Barbara C. Doyle

#16. When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-morrow' said he.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he [Holmes], 'but it is a common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Could you look again, please?" the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. "It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao.

Libba Bray

#21. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#23. Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#24. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#26. Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The proper study of mankind is man" you know

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. You realize you've been staring at me for the past five minutes?

Catherine Doyle

#28. And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older
she'd liked them. They were reminders
the back, the knee, the achy wrists
they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.

Roddy Doyle

#29. 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

#30. The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

Roddy Doyle

#31. His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#32. How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#33. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours

Arthur Conan Doyle

#37. 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

#38. Well, Mr. Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?" "To remember it
to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#39. Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson

Kiara Delaney

#40. You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Arthur Conan Doyle