Quotes About Arthur Conan Doyle

jacket. It was this sketch-book, which was as dilapidated

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

no more to be done in the matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good morning." He bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

Y, cuando habla de Irene Adler, o se refiere a su fotografía, utiliza siempre el honorable título de <>.

And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

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

Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than those more superficial ones tor which our artificial state of society is responsible.

You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

when this original intellectual deduction is confirmed point by point by quite a number of independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and

tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street

The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance. You cunning, cunning fiend! was all that he could say.

Are you in the police yourself?" "No." "What business is it of yours, then?" "It's every man's business to see justice done.

seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time

No data yet, he answered. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

It is cocaine, he said,—a seven-per-cent. solution. Would you care to try it?

It is an old manuscript." "Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery." "How can you say that, sir?" "You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking. It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.

Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. There is one of our bacilli squeaking for help, said he with a grim smile. They are beginning to realise that their continued existence is not really one of the necessities of the universe.

Consideraría impertinente que sometiese a una prueba más severa sus teorías? —Todo lo contrario —me contestó—; con ello me evitaría una segunda dosis de cocaína.

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

Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with