872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its 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.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!