Quotes About Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.

By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street

You won't die in your bed, Holmes. I have often had the same idea.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

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

If all else perish, there will remain8 a story-teller's world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of veranda and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.