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.
...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his .]
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. "You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake say that you're not hurt!" It was worth a wound -it was worth many wounds- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay beyond tha...
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have ...
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
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Meu caro amigo (...), a vida é infinitamente mais estranha que qualquer coisa que a mente do homem possa inventar. Não nos atreveríamos a conceber coisas que são, afinal, lugares-comuns da existência. Se pudéssemos sair a voar de mão dada por ...
I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
