Quotes About Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion that equaled my own. I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, ---a factor in a problem. - Sherlock Holmes

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.

By my soul! I would rather have a dry death, quoth Sir Oliver. Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

I have come for advice. - That is easily got. - And help. - That is not always so easy. #The Five Orange Pips

I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies. You are right, said Holmes demurely: you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.