Arthur Conan Doyle quotes - page 5

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. View quote
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. View quote
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. View quote
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. View quote
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. View quote
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. View quote
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. View quote
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. View quote
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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. View quote
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes. View quote
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What one man can invent, another can discover. View quote
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horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle. View quote
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. View quote
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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen. View quote
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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. View quote
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. View quote
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. View quote
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. View quote
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? View quote
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be. View quote
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. View quote
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. View quote
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