Quotes About Arthur Conan Doyle

and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled

His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

There is an appalling directness about your questions, Watson, said Holmes, shaking his pipe at me. They come at me like bullets.

At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.

They are both from the Guion Steamship Company, and refer to the sailing of their boats from Liverpool.

What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied

I thrilled now with a keener zest than I had ever enjoyed when we were the defenders of the law instead of its defiers.

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

Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business

Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes.

I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world," said he. "In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit that the footmark is material.

As to the photograph, your client may rest in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.

Miss Morrison is a little, ethereal slip of a girl

THREE DAYS LATER A MESSAGE WAS LEFT  UNDER A PEBBLE UPON THE SUNDIAL."   "'If it really annoys you, Hilton, we might go and travel, you and I, and so avoid this nuisance.' "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?

Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst.

You mean the retired sergeant of Marines," said Sherlock Holmes.

that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote

I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.

When water is near and a weight is missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.

He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe. Look at the great trench in the opposite hill. That is his mark. Yes, you will find some very singular points about the moor, Dr. Watson.

Count Sylvius, We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself. Not far from him, at any rate, Holmes answered witha polite smile.