872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.