"It is not my intention to be fulsome,……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens…
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the…
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I…
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing…
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
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