How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your… — 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
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have… — 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
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
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — 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
