"There is a mystery about this which stimulates……" — Arthur Conan Doyle

"There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror."

— 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…
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…

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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how… — Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse,… — Charles Baudelaire
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in… — Martha Beck
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. — Theodor Adorno
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. — Josh Billings

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