Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Wine Quotes, Oysters Quotes

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.

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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.

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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

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