Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabÃ

And if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.

The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.

We were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization.

But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?

His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

I play the game for the game's own sake

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.