Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, said he. Results without causes are much more impressive.

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

My brain has always governed my heart Sherlock Holmes

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that? On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.

The division seems rather unfair, I remarked. 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. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.

Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.

If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.

The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.

Holmes, you have an answer to everything

My wife was on a visit to her aunt's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street. 'Why,' said I, glancing up at my companion, 'that was surely the bell? Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?' 'Except yourself I have none,' he answered. 'I do not encourage visitors.

How do you know that? I followed you. I saw no one. That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.

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.

Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

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

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