Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Book Quotes, Mysterious Quotes

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Mysterious Quotes

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Time Quotes , Nature Quotes

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Running Quotes , Men Quotes

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Hate Quotes , Cities Quotes

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Mean Quotes

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Terror Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Holmes Quotes , Remains Quotes

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Men Quotes , Cabbage Quotes

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , World Quotes , Settling Quotes

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Brave Quotes , Imbeciles Quotes

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Soul Quotes , Body Quotes

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Events Quotes , Literature Quotes

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Literature Quotes

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Wife Quotes

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Smoking Quotes , Three Quotes

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Fate Quotes , Way Quotes

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Running Quotes , Blank Mind Quotes