All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. Becomes
- We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. Consistency
- Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a… Corpse
- He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king. Declared
- There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their… All
- To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. Great
- Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… Among
- There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. Dull
- My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. Business
- Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul. Clear
- Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had… Accounts
- Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry… Able
- It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and… Another Man
- …but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. All
- It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . Brain
- His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every… Adventure
- If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. Copies
- It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable… Conductor
- You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad. Cannot See
- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… Analytical
- The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? Agents
- Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. Bricks
- I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,… Afraid
- I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather. Devil
- Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Infinitely