All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
- It is not that I think or believe, but that I know. Believe
- On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement… Among
- Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. Art
- It’s every man’s business to see justice done. Business
- If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking… All
- I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Boot
- Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with… Ah
- Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle… Age
- His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. Firefly
- You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world… Free
- When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and… All
- It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. Book
- Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some… Birth
- How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data. Dangerous
- Violence is sometimes a duty. Duty
- The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. Bring
- Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil Course
- Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… Anatomy
- 'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness… All
- It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice… America
- You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our… Accepting
- Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and… All
- To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those… Caution
- Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell… Chimneys
- Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. Abstinence