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
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures… — 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
