Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Stamford, introducing us. - How are you? he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.