"Might I trouble you to open the window,……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate."
—
Arthur Conan Doyle
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle has 383 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
See all 383 quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle »
More Chloroform Quotes
This quote is filed under Chloroform Quotes,
one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man…
— George Bernard Shaw
-
Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform..
— Ray Romano
-
I have preferred chloroform to cancer
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
— Clarence Darrow
-
Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
— John Barbirolli
-
Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to…
— William Ernest Henley
-
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
— George Bernard Shaw
-
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken…
— Mark Twain
-
Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
-
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
— Oswald Chambers
-
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
— Oliver St. John
See all 12 Chloroform Quotes »