Books Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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