Arthur Conan Doyle

“The plot thickens.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is all surmise.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“my joy, I”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We can but try.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That was it, sir.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything is better than stagnation.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We have much to hope from the flowers.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That hurts my pride, Watson.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Are you well up in your Jean Paul?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You mean the retired sergeant of Marines,” said Sherlock Holmes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I always smoke ‘ship's’ myself,” I answered. “That's”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is an appalling directness about your questions, Watson," said Holmes, shaking his pipe at me. "They come at me like bullets.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If I remember rightly, you on one occasion defined my limits in a very precise fashion." "Yes," [Watson] answered, laughing. "It was…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence is sometimes a duty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle