All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. Acting
- To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. Brain
- Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Character
- The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it. Inspirational
- It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact… Dissolved
- I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson Felt
- So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only… Adorned
- As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters.… Arms
- I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half… Boy
- I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. Better
- The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply. Apply
- It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Extras
- It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. Blacker
- It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. Course
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. All
- It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special… Accompaniments
- You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Conductor
- But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. All
- Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… All
- Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. Best
- ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the… Acknowledged
- You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did… Cabman
- Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it. Hands
- Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. Desultory
- You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds --… All