Towns Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

...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

“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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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