“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — 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
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no… — 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
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
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
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — 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