“The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There were no footmarks.' 'Meaning that you saw none?' 'I assure you, sir, that there were none.' 'My good Hopkins, I have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force... There's more work to be got out of one of those little… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so… — 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
