"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent,……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
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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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More Digs Quotes
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
— Annie Dillard
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Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say…
— Bobby Darin
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Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo…
— Nick Kelsh
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Apparently I ain't the only cat on the block digs cheetos.
— Ron White
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This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger…
— Ken Kesey
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What a child digs for becomes his own possession,
— Charlotte Mason
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I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach…
— Erik Naggum
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the…
— Karel Capek
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that…
— Hannah More
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You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away…
— Unknown Author
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating,…
— Donald Johanson
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