Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer most famous for his detective stories featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. He was born in Scotland in 1859 and wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes. He also wrote many other works, including science fiction stories, historical novels, romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle on sherlock holmes, love, life.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle inspirational quote
Arthur Conan Doyle Image Quotes
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. — Arthur Conan Doyle
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Short Quotes
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
You see, but you do not observe.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Sherlock Holmes
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. — Arthur Conan Doyle
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Love
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
We can't command our love, but we can our actions. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. — Arthur Conan Doyle
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. — Arthur Conan Doyle
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. — Arthur Conan Doyle
What a lovely thing a rose is! — Arthur Conan Doyle
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Life
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below. — Arthur Conan Doyle
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. — Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Truth
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. — Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Remains
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible. — Arthur Conan Doyle
...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. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. — Arthur Conan Doyle
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle Famous Quotes And Sayings
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. — Arthur Conan Doyle
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. — Arthur Conan Doyle
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! — Arthur Conan Doyle
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? — Arthur Conan Doyle
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. — Arthur Conan Doyle
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander. — Arthur Conan Doyle
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different — Arthur Conan Doyle
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad. — Arthur Conan Doyle
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence recoils on the violent. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. — Arthur Conan Doyle
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? — Arthur Conan Doyle
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." — Arthur Conan Doyle
I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The fair sex is your department. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. — Arthur Conan Doyle
What one man can invent, another can discover. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! — Arthur Conan Doyle
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? — Arthur Conan Doyle
What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? — Arthur Conan Doyle
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life Lessons by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle taught us to never give up, no matter how difficult the task may seem. He demonstrated this through his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, who always persevered and used his intelligence and wit to solve cases.
Arthur Conan Doyle also taught us the importance of friendship and loyalty. Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson, were always there for each other, no matter the situation.
Finally, Arthur Conan Doyle taught us to be open to new ideas and to never stop learning. Sherlock Holmes was always open to new information and was constantly learning new facts and theories in order to help him solve cases.
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