"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."
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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…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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More Commonplace Quotes
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick…
— George Carlin
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very…
— William J. Clinton
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
— Blaise Pascal
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
— Cesare Pavese
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may…
— Samuel Smiles
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned…
— Christopher Fry
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