What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the… — 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
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — 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
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — 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
