“Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. "There is one of our bacilli squeaking for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole?… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My… — 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
