“However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“... this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“One other thing, Lestrade,” he added, turning round at the door: “‘Rache,’ is the German for ‘revenge;’ so don't lose your time… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson,” said he. “I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Now, Jack, is there anything you would like?" The youth pondered for a moment. "I'd like a shillin'," said he. "Nothing you… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Rache, is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is… — 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
“deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely… — 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
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is… — 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
