Life Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is full of whimsical happenings, Watson”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have taken to living by my wits.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Dogs don't make mistakes.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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 must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“...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

“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

“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

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

— 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

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which…

— 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