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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

British Writer May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Too bad we'll never know if this is a face you could learn to..."
Too bad we'll never know if this is a face you could learn to love.- Angel show "Hero Arthur Conan Doyle
A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally..."
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "I love and am loved by a better man than he."
I love and am loved by a better man than he. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
We can't command our love, but we can our actions. Arthur Conan Doyle
And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance. Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is... Arthur Conan Doyle
Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "It is a great thing to start life with a small number of..."
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Arthur Conan Doyle
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known..."
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would... Arthur Conan Doyle
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. Arthur Conan Doyle

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