Book Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

17 Book quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s reflections on books reveal a mind that relishes mystery and deduction. Across seventeen brief notes he hints at the power of narrative to sharpen the intellect and stir imagination.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

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“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

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“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses…

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it…

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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his…

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all…

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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to…

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“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his…

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“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods…

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“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly…

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“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning…

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“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,…

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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through…

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I…

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...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…

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“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…

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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“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…

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“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”

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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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

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“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

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“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”

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“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,…

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“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

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“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through…

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