89 Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.

I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.-Sherlock Holmes

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

The game is afoot.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.