All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me… — 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
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour… — 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
All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?"… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may… — 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
