All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my… Ah
- 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British… British
- The fair sex is your department. Department
- Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am… Animal
- In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than… Amazed
- To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy… All
- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,… Animal
- Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Ability
- Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean,… Blade
- ...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… All
- It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental… Able
- Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. All
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… All
- The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair. Becomes
- All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. All
- It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame. Exhausted
- Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! All
- Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? Danger
- Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories. Argue
- Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had… Absolutely
- There is nothing like first-hand evidence. Evidence
- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. Cold
- Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. Another Person
- I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. Common
- The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a… Appears