Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a wonderful place, the moor, said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges. You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.

si buscamos efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos fijarnos en la vida misma, que siempre es mucho más sorprendente que cualquier esfuerzo de la imaginación.

Good old Watson!You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

It would be a rare place for a gallop. You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?

By Jove!" I cried, "if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone." Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wine-glass. "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet

It is cocaine, he said,—a seven-per-cent. solution. Would you care to try it?

It is every man's business to see justice done.

It is an old manuscript." "Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery." "How can you say that, sir?" "You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking. It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.

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 is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that

Stangerson too!" he muttered. "The plot thickens.

Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family?

think that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them.

death struggle had been a grievous one. On

Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. There is one of our bacilli squeaking for help, said he with a grim smile. They are beginning to realise that their continued existence is not really one of the necessities of the universe.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping

It is only goodness which gives extra...

It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth.

Stanley Hopkins was speechless with amazement. I don't know what to say, Mr. Holmes, he blurted out at last, with a very red face. It seems to me that I have been making a fool of myself from the beginning. I understand now, what I should never have forgotten, that I am the pupil and you are the master. Even now I see what you have done, but I don't know how you did it or what it signifies.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.