89 Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.

Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.