"If I had never touched Holmes, who has……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,"
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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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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard…
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
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The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master…
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