All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all… — 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
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It was worth a wound--it was worth many wounds--to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we… — 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
