Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle Download Open image ““No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.”” — Arthur Conan Doyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Evidently habit does wonders! God knows what habit can do with anyone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“annoyed. Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this.” — M.O. Walsh Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,’ the Professor said, patiently.” — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“I know that they don't intend harm, but it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“take away this remaining doubt that, if it does not become a certainty, will turn into remorse.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Have you ever tried To quit a bad habit, one that has come to define you?” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“. I know from experience, that unkind words hurt long after they are said.” — Trista Hendren 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 one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“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 of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
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 could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
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
“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
