Arthur Conan Doyle: Trending quotes (page 2)

“horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle”

“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.”

“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.”

“By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

Because I looked for it.”

“The game is afoot.”

“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.”

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

“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”

“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”

“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.”

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“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.”

“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,, must be the truth?”

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“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.”