English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

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

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

William Hague quote: "I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different..."
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. William Hague
Jimmy Kimmel quote: "No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I..."
No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do. Jimmy Kimmel
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. Matt Damon
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. George R. R. Martin
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. Carl Barks
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. Charles Perrault
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time. Alan Bennett
Bill Cosby quote: "Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker."
Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker. Bill Cosby
Shannen Doherty quote: "That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good..."
That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act? Shannen Doherty
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard,..."
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? Georg C. Lichtenberg
Alton Brown quote: "The moral of this story is not everything that's slick is..."
The moral of this story is not everything that's slick is non-stick, and not everything non-stick is slick. Alton Brown
Luigi Pirandello quote: "It is so. When YOU think so"
It is so. When YOU think so Luigi Pirandello
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suzanne Collins quote: "Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart."
Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart. Suzanne Collins
I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert. Thandie Newton