872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: ‘What you say is natural, but if you had seen what I have seen you might alter your opinion’. Perhaps sometime you will be able to look into the matter, for your high position in the scientific world would give your opinion great weight.

A sick man is but a child, and so I will treat you.

Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” – Sherlock Holmes.

This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! – and that! – and that! – and that!

I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.

I am inclined to think -? said I. ‘I should do so,’ Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson.

A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.