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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

British Writer May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930

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This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson: When do we start? Holmes: You are not coming. Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you. Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. Arthur Conan Doyle
It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. Arthur Conan Doyle
If in one hundred years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes, then I will have considered my life a failure. Arthur Conan Doyle
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy. Arthur Conan Doyle
Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. Arthur Conan Doyle
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind could..."
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind could invent. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the..."
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable..."
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it..."
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. Arthur Conan Doyle
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. Arthur Conan Doyle
They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. Arthur Conan Doyle
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it. Arthur Conan Doyle

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