Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What

Nada es pequeño para las grandes mentes

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.

The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers.

On the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow.

Tausend Teufel!" he exclaimed, rapping out a tremendous South German oath, to the great astonishment of his audience and to the disgust of the Swedenborgian. "Where the Henker am I then, and what in thunder has occurred? Oh yes, I remember now. One of these nonsensical mesmeric experiments. There is no result

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe. Look at the great trench in the opposite hill. That is his mark. Yes, you will find some very singular points about the moor, Dr. Watson.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Stevenson's last year at Edinburgh University must have just about coincided with my first one, and Barrie must have been in that grey old nest of learning about the year 1876. Strange to think that I probably brushed elbows with both of them in the crowded portal.

it was the faults which I loved best.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny. ... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

Whatever remains, However improbable

Count Sylvius, We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself. Not far from him, at any rate, Holmes answered witha polite smile.

Una vieja máxima mía dice que, cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

La vida es toda una gran cadena cuya naturaleza se manifiesta a la sola vista de un eslabón aislado

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.