Mystery Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine…

— John Albert Macy

“It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]”

— Rex Stout

“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

— Rex Stout

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”

— Will Thomas

“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