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One Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson,…
- I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less…
- Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
- 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…
- "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging…
- "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a…
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
- You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
- 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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to…
- From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or…
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
- The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
- You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one…
- As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in…
- One must wait till it comes.
- Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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