Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

There was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a weekend visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgement, it wants a bit of explainin'.

Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.