Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained.