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Sarcasm 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,…
- 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 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…
- Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
- Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can…
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.…
- We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom…
- 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…
- His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there…
- I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
- "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
- I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt…
- Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
- Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
- ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!…
- 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…
- He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any…
- The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
- The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low…
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- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
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