All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . Absence
- I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it. Feel
- I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. Age
- Steel True, Blade Straight. Blade
- The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… Acquaintance
- Hot hate is twin brother to hot love. Brother
- A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. Aging
- Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… Backwards
- Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,… All
- It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… Already Broken
- How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… Anchor
- A man with so large a brain must have something in it. Brain
- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Adventure
- [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Bane
- It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next… Adopted
- My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely… Allied
- "I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… Appears
- 'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' Always Beat
- He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… Breaking
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the… Children
- The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. Able
- Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. Celebrity
- You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. Heart
- Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. Chess
- Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions. Day