This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?"… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free… — 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
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!… — 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
...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
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — 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
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — 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
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
