The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — 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
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to… — 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
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — 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
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — 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
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all… — 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 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 farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
