I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to… — 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
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — 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
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 is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more… — 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
