All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each… Attributes
- I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your… Believe
- Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind… Agency
- What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and… Creature
- You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… Absurd
- It is quite a three-pipe problem. Pipe
- It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I… All
- When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. All
- Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help… Beneficent
- There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! Absolutely
- There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it,… Blood
- If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a… Commanding
- He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… Abstract
- While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… Aggregate
- A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. Chronicler
- I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.… Any
- I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. Conclusion
- There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible. From
- It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was… Across
- Dogs don't make mistakes. Dog
- What a lovely thing a rose is! Inspirational
- "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason… Contrary
- Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation. Accurate
- One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock… Bad
- We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr.… All