89 Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.