Top 100 Quotes About Arthur Conan Doyle
#1. Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
Diane Setterfield
#2. It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner
#3. 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
#4. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.
---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Donna Cummins
#5. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.
Will Thomas
#6. I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
John Darnielle
#7. I had no idea that such individuals existed outside of stories. A STUDY IN SCARLET, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Brittany Cavallaro
#8. I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
Alan Bennett
#9. He is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." STAMFORD, DESCRIBING SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DR. WATSON, IN SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, A STUDY IN SCARLET
Adam S. McHugh
#10. Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias
#11. I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, till end of course.
Diane Setterfield
#12. From the vantage of the early twenty-first century, it might be more accurate to say, with no disrespect, that Arthur Conan Doyle originated Sherlock Holmes. The rest of us, obviously, aren't yet finished creating him.
Zach Dundas
#13. His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
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#16. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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
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#19. 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.
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#20. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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#21. How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache,
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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
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#25. 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.
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#26. You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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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#31. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
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#35. 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.
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#36. If you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes
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#37. 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.
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#38. No violence, gentlemen - no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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#40. the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear,
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#41. Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
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#42. Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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#43. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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#44. We can't do these things in the force, Mr. Holmes," said he. "No wonder you get results that are beyond us. But some of these days you'll go too far, and you'll find yourself and your friend in trouble." "For England, home and beauty - eh, Watson? Martyrs on the altar of our country.
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#45. It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.
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#46. The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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#47. 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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#48. The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
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#50. To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. "If your friend," she said, "would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me.
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#51. Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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#52. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
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#53. He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Eglow, Eglonitz - here we are, Egria. It
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#54. I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.
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#55. To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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#57. Never theorize before you have data.Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
-Sherlock holmes
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#58. My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.
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#59. There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
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#61. 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.
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#63. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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#67. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.
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#68. A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What
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#69. What I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.
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#70. The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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#73. 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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#74. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.
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#75. 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.
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#77. The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.
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#78. Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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#79. You won't die in your bed, Holmes." "I have often had the same idea. Does
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#81. There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
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#83. We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.
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#84. Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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#85. To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
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#87. Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
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#88. Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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#90. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
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#91. The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.
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#92. Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
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#93. A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor.
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#95. 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.
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#96. When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.
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#98. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
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#100. Wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear. The
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