“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
