Books Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] ‘I don’t care whether you do or not,’ said Bram. ‘But you will, eventually. He’s yours, till death…

— Graham Moore

“A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Mr Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female…

— Sophia McDougall

“Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Holmes had returned entirely to his old self – secretive, over-confident and thoroughly annoying.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit,…

— Graham Moore

“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my…

— Arthur Conan Doyle