The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“On the whole, he thinks that Barclay's devotion to his wife was greater than his wife's to Barclay. He was acutely uneasy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“You're too late. She's my wife." "No, she's your widow." His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My wife was on a visit to her aunt's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. "I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the… — 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
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
