Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle
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 must have been really intolerable.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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 Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
- Arthur Conan Doyle