“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.” — 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
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. You… — 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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. — 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
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months… — 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
“We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great,… — 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
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — 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
“Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against… — 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
