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“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“We can but try.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“… while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (…)”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Case of Identity

Source: A Case of Identity

“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

“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

Source: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”

Arthur Conan Doyle