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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

British Writer May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930

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Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise."
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it..."
but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. Arthur Conan Doyle
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what..."
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know Arthur Conan Doyle
You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this. Arthur Conan Doyle
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "To let the brain work without sufficient material is like..."
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. Arthur Conan Doyle
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. Arthur Conan Doyle
The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloudbank. The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim. There have been numerous petty thefts. This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land,..."
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a..."
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Arthur Conan Doyle
What is the meaning of it Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is this long standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever. Arthur Conan Doyle
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson? Arthur Conan Doyle
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which..."
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. Arthur Conan Doyle

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