Arthur Conan Doyle: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

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

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

“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.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”

“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”

“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”

“To Sherlock Holmes she is alwayswoman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

“I am lost without my Boswell.”

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

“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.”

“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”