872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger nature has awoke within her. There are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.

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.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.

Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

I am sure that it is the truth.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

I have my own views about Nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his.

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.