Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Halloween Quotes, Night Quotes

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

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‎A change of work is the best rest.

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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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The fair sex is your department.

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

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

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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

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