Business Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“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

“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

“affair struck me as so very absurd; but now I determined to be wiser, and begin at once with as much form and ceremony…

— Anne Brontë

“Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part,…

— Philip Pullman

“You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.”

— Laurie R. King

“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck…

— Gustav Flaubert

“Elementary, my dear Watson." "That's a misquotation, by the way," I countered without thinking. Which might've made more of an impact if I'd stopped…

— Ramona Wray

“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.1 —SHERLOCK HOLMES, IN SIGN OF THE FOUR”

— Nat Greene

“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle