Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Deception Quotes

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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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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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

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

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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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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.

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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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