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Own Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
- I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
- I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am…
- Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
- To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is…
- It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen…
- 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…
- The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt
- Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had…
- The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come…
- Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an…
- Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look…
- There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and…
- The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
- ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and…
- Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in…
- Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…
- So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only…
- Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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