Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Nice Quotes, Dark Quotes

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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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.

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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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