What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me. — 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
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — 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