It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
...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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d2/arthur-conan-doyle-273_abstract_he-professor-moriarty-is-the-napoleon-of_1654932.jpg)
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