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
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — 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
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative… — 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
“Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — 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
