Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes - Page 11

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• I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.524, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Steel True, Blade Straight.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Tombstone, Steel, Blades

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Secret, Mysterious

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.538, Race Point Publishing

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Doctors, Doe

  The Speckled Band

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• What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Moon, Differences, Sun

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Paper, Found

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.516, Race Point Pub

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• Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Ideas, Race

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Kings, War, Wells

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1430, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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• By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Men, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.172, Race Point Publishing

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Eye, Home

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

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• His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Doors, Practice, Addiction

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.106, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Causes, Results

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.374, Race Point Pub

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• For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Brain, Glimpse

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

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• A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Brain

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.157

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• There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steps, Grotesque, Horrible

  1917 His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

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• Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Answers

  "The Final Problem". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle, www.theguardian.com. 1893.

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• I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

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• We have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Plant, Embellishment

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

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• To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Underestimate, Exaggeration, Oneself

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• The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Musical, Bells

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.1971, Delphi Classics

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• The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stories, Half, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Great Boer War”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brother, Thinking, Night

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