Arthur Conan Doyle: Man

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

“You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson.”

“What one man can invent, another can discover.”

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

“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.”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We are used to see that Man despises what he never comprehends.”