Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Holmes

Late

…Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

Ambition

Book

Drug

…it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

Halloween

Men

Night

‘It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,’ cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

Criminals

Law

Play

‘There’s no need for fiction in medicine,’ remarks Foster… ‘for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.’

Medicine

Needs

Science

“”Dear girl,” continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, “fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart – oh, say it!” Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

Attitude

Girl

Humorous

“I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend. “On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”

Drawing

Failure

Friendship

“I have seen those symptoms before,” said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. “Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.”

Humorous

Mean

Sarcasm

“Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe” “Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?” Asked Holmes, with some asperity. “To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly.” “Then had you not better consult him?” “I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently–” “Just a little,” said Holmes.

Europe

Men

Mind

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Data

Form

Temptation

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Acting

Action

Actors

Adaptable

Addiction

Advancement

Adventure

Afghanistan

Age

Agency

Air

Ambition

America

Ancient

Angel

Animal

Answers

Army

Art

Attitude

Average

Batteries

Beats

Beautiful

Believe

Belts

Best Way

Bigger

Black

Blades

Blood

Book

Boots

Bottles

Boys

Brain

Brave

Bricks And Mortar

Brother

Bulldogs

Business

Cabbage

Cases

Cat

Causes

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Childhood

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Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

…Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

‘It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,’ cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

‘There’s no need for fiction in medicine,’ remarks Foster… ‘for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.’

“I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend. “On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”

“I have seen those symptoms before,” said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. “Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.”

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

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