Arthur Conan Doyle quotes - page 3

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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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.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
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Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.
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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)
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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