Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes - Page 4

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• The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Science, Able

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Life Is

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• I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Speak

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• I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Should Have, Principles, Violence

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4031, Delphi Classics

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• A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Jewels, Ornaments, Use

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.7963, Delphi Classics

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• The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Progress, Virtue, Interest

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4567, Delphi Classics

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• The soul is swayed by the waters.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Water, Soul

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4869, Delphi Classics

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• The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Winning, Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Justice, Clean, Young

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.72, eKitap Projesi

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• ‎A change of work is the best rest.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.120, Broadview Press

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• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Wife, Teeth

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Criticism, Matter

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• Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Holmes, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.206, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Revenge, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes #6”, p.147, Zillmann Publishing

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• The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Emotional, Quality, Clear

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.26, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Gentleman, Violence, Furniture

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1988). “The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes”, p.714, Jaico Publishing House

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• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Learning, Men, Specialists

  1917 His Last Bow,'Bruce-Partington Plans'.

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• I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Trifles, Reader

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thrown

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.81, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2209, Delphi Classics

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• Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  People, Soul, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.456, BoD - Books on Demand

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• There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Waiting, Heroism, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle “Lost World”, Courier Dover Publications

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• So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Links, Life Is, Chains

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.15, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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