"Draw your chair up, and hand me my……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings."
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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 am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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More Autumnal Quotes
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
— Walt Whitman
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
— John Dryden
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that…
— Washington Irving
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be,…
— Nick Tosches
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I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another…
— Anne Robinson
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return.…
— Alexander Smith
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However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore…
— Fujiwara no Teika
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I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a…
— Howard Roberts
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
— John Donne
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
— P.D. James
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