Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

About Arthur Conan Doyle:

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is easy to be wise after the event.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything is better than stagnation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Arthur Conan Doyle

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views. -

Arthur Conan Doyle

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Arthur Conan Doyle

A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long tim...

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...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 mu...

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

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What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far...

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Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes

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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died awa...

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The latter yawned and tossed the end of his cigarette into the fire. "Well?" said he. "Do you not fin...

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Author Bio

  • NameArthur Conan Doyle
  • DescriptionScottish physician and writer
  • AliasesSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
  • BornMay 22, 1859
  • DiedJuly 7, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPhysician; Writer; Poet; Cricketer; Novelist; Politician; Essayist; Playwright; Autobiographer; Librettist
  • WorksSherlock Holmes Canonical Works; The Lost World
  • AwardsVenerable Order Of Saint John; Deputy Lieutenant