872 Quotes by 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.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

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.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.