Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

To a great mind, nothing is little

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

You must admit that the whole conduct of the proceedings was intolerable, and that my righteous protest was more than justified. It is possible that when I threw the chairman's table at the President of the Psychic College I passed the bounds of decorum, but the provocation had been excessive.

No good can ever come of falsehood

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.