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May Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on…
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
- Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- '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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
- I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
- So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to…
- I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
- Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of…
- ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
- There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their…
- Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
- Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry…
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