Darkness Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle Download Open image ““I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.”” — Arthur Conan Doyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness Faculty Seeing Gleam Humor Humor Humor Darkness Irish Irish Faculty Seeing Gleam
“I have always marvelled at the ability of the average Gael to find something to laugh about in the most unlikely situation.” — Mary J. Macleod Copy Share Image
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark… — Eilis Flynn Copy Share Image
“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish… — Benjamin Black Copy Share Image
“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“That was laughter-a natural eruption of good humor that occurs when people are amused.” — Carla Kelly Copy Share Image
“I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd be perfect.” — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual.… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine… — Tony Hawks Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What does he look like? The question was soft- tentative. I knew who he meant. I interlaced my fingers through Rhysand's and squeezed tightly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
