No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — 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
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through… — 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
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows… — 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
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could… — 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
![“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have…” quote by Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d7a/arthur-conan-doyle-273_attics_i-consider-that-a-man-s-brain-originally_2144119.jpg)
