Quotes About Detective Conan

#1. To keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be. - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

Gosho Aoyama

#2. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.

Laurie R. King

#4. I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. 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

#6. He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart - sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. A strange enigma is man

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. Here's a curious fact about human beings: we have a really hard time realizing that something isn't there.

Josh Kaufman

#11. 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

#12. In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Bill Vaughan

#13. A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

Gosho Aoyama

#14. Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

Maureen Dowd

#15. Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Rob Thomas

#16. If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.

J.C. Ryle

#17. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. 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

#19. All knowledge comes useful to the detective," remarked Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. The church is the only authorized institution for the proclamation of the gospel

Stanley Mehta

#21. A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Mal Peet

#22. Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

Gosho Aoyama