Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

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.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.