"Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson,……" — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…

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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least… — David Bailey
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. — Dave Barry
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess,… — Madeleine Albright
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. — Alexander Alekhine
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex… — Steve Carell
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to… — Graydon Carter
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. — Winston Churchill
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. — Woody Allen

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