Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle
Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted
- Arthur Conan Doyle
So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is brutal work, though not more brutal than that which goes onto supply every dinner-table in the country (Life on a Greenland Whaler, an article published in The Strand Magazine in january 1897)
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
- Arthur Conan Doyle