872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

-A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, "il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit!" ( "Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio")

Хто сказав, що ви холодні і ворожі, мої бідолашні скупчення криги? Я знав вас і в штиль і в шторм, і стверджую, що ви дотепні і доброзичливі. Химерний похмурий гумор у ваших зрізаних вершинах, що набувають фантастичних форм. Ваші крижані поля непорочні й чисті, навіть коли боляче "кусаються". Так, ви артистично непорочні й малювничі, але надто часто сором'язлива завіса туману приховувала ваші чари.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us. I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run. -- A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.

Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,

Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.

It is brutal work, though not more brutal than that which goes onto supply every dinner-table in the country (Life on a Greenland Whaler, an article published in The Strand Magazine in january 1897)

It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted,