Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Family Quotes, Wife Quotes

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Two Quotes , Old Friends Quotes

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Halloween Quotes , Night Quotes

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Writing Quotes

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Religious Quotes , Pain Quotes

In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Spring Quotes , Animal Quotes

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Secret Quotes

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Cried Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

One must wait till it comes.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Incidents Quotes , Grotesque Quotes

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Science Quotes , History Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Memories Quotes , Trifles Quotes

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Links Quotes , Life Is Quotes