List of Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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Arthur Conan Doyle
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You have done all the work in this business. i get a wife out of it, jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "for me," said sherlock holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.
Wife Bottles Credit
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.
Time Learning Sight
I felt holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - watson
Hands Giving Reassuring
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.
Circles Paper Violence
Now, watson,” said holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “you’ll come with me, won’t you?” “if i can be of use.” “oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. my room at the cedars is a double-bedded one.
Dog Two Yellow
You're not hurt, watson? for god's sake, say that you are not hurt!" it was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. the clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. for the one and only time i caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. all my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.
Loyalty Hurt Heart
I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. if the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. but he has no ambition and no energy. he will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
Art Brother Book
Crime is common. logic is rare. therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Common Logic Crime
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.
Book Simple Simplicity
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.
Fate Rivers May
"recognising, as i do, that you are the second highest expert in europe" "indeed, sir! may i inquire who has the honour to be the first?" asked holmes, with some asperity. "to the man of precised, scientific mind the work of monsieur bertillon must always appeal strongly." "then had you not better consult him?" "i said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. but as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. i trust, sir, that i have not inadvertently--" "just a little," said holmes.
Men Europe Mind
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Men Evil Girlhood
  • Born: May 22, 1859
  • Died: July 7, 1930
  • Occupation: Physician
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