Arthur Conan Doyle

“Things are always easier when imagination ceases and action begins.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You know my methods. Apply them.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is easy to be wise after the event.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is not what we know, but what we can prove.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I’m not a psychopath, I’m a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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. It’s smell and it’s color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“To a great mind, nothing is little,? remarked Holmes, sententiously.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a fool’s plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of times.” “Then how many are there?” “How many? I don’t know.” “Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won’t do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual – that’s to say, you handled it fairly well.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“But no chain is stronger than its weakest link.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“From the instant that we passed the rise, we could no longer see the vehicle, but we hastened onward at such a pace that my sedentary life began to tell upon me, and I was compelled to fall behind. Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“What one man can invent, another can discover.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The game is afoot.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Steel True, Blade Straight.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, – a factor in a problem. – Sherlock Holmes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“We can but try.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.” ~ 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

“He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is more than possible; it is probable.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Violence is sometimes a duty.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“No violence, gentlemen – no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never remember feeling tired by work. though idleness exhausts me completely.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes.

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“What a lovely thing a rose is!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! – and that! – and that! – and that!” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I abhour the dull routine of existence” – Sherlock Holmes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“To a great mind nothing is little.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Dogs don’t make mistakes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Anything seems commonplace, once explained.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Truth is stranger than fiction.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am inclined to think -? said I. ‘I should do so,’ Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The work is its own reward.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?? ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ ‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?” “A fixture also.” “On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire.” “In spirit?” “Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Misfortunes never come single.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes had listened with the utmost intentness to the statement of the unhappy schoolmaster. His drawn brows and the deep furrow between them showed that he needed no exhortation to concentrate all his attention upon a problem which, apart from the tremendous interests involved must appeal so directly to his love of the complex and the unusual. He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” – Sherlock Holmes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Violence recoils on the violent.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“But how could you guess what the motive was?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I don’t speak for others and they don’t speak for me.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man with so large a brain must have something in it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I confess that I covet your skull.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The soul is swayed by the waters.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I love and am loved by a better man than he.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.” ~ 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

“I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal – are you a masochist?” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle