Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle
As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not easy to express the inexpressible
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle