89 Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

İnsan ne tuhaf bir yaratıktır. Cinayetle haşır neşir, kim bilir kaç kez bir ailenin babasının, gözü yaşlı eşi ya da çaresiz çocukları için hiçbir pişmanlık yahut acıma duygusu hissetmeden, hiçbir kişisel düşmanlıklarının olmadığı bir adamın canını almış bu adamların, müziğin tatlı ve dokunaklı nağmelerine kulak verince adeta gözleri yaşarıyordu.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (The Sign of the Four, page 111)

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.