Arthur Conan Doyle

A change of work is the best rest.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“My profession is its own reward”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence is sometimes a duty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When once the law is evoked it cannot be stayed again, and”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts?" "It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That hurts my pride, Watson.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We have much to hope from the flowers.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Are you well up in your Jean Paul?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything is better than stagnation.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

— Arthur Conan Doyle