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Some 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…
- 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,…
- "I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of…
- 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…
- Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help…
- 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…
- 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…
- Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
- Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has…
- It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for…
- Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
- The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
- Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a…
- There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
- Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
- It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable…
- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
- How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
- I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
- Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended…
- It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four,…
- What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery…
- No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
- 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…
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