"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle has 383 quotes on this site.
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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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If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
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In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for…
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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with…
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If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be…
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of…
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The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are…
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And you call yourselves a bowling alley?
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