Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do… — 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
“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I'm like an old golf-ball—I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago. Life can whack me about now, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a… — 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… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study… — 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
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may… — 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… — 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
“It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole?… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of… — 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
