Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Strong Quotes, Men Quotes

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Strong Quotes , Men 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

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Women Quotes , May 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Law Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Consistency Quotes , Deception Quotes

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Destruction Quotes , Accepting Quotes

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Real Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Mind Quotes , Noble Quotes

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Danger Quotes , Cubs Quotes

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Joy Quotes , Sorrow Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Circles Quotes , Paper Quotes

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Business Quotes , Names Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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