Arthur Conan Doyle: Trending quotes (page 8)

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”

“One must wait till it comes.”

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”

“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.”

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”

“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

“My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.”

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"

[Sherlock Holmes on his. ]”

“Quite simple, my dear Watson”

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”