Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us. I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run. -- A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca

We who claim toleration should be the first to extend it to others. I

We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a weekend visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgement, it wants a bit of explainin'.

Si un cometa chocara contra este montón de polvo nuestro y lo convirtiera en mil millones de fragmentos que salieran disparados hacia el espacio, si su ardiente aliento lamiera cada forma de vida como una polilla se marchita con una vela, todavía, al final de mil millones de años, la más diminuta partícula de nuestros cuerpos seguiría existiendo.

Este o greÈ™eal? capital? s? emiÈ›i teorii înainte de a avea informaÈ›ii. F?r? s?-È›i dai seama, începi s? distorsionezi faptele ca s? se potriveasc? cu teoriile, în loc ca teoriile s? se potriveasc? cu faptele.

Consider the fiddlesticks!

las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.

the principal export of Great Britain to the United States IS the United States.

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

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.