Arthur Conan Doyle: Quotes about life

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

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

“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.”

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

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

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

“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.”

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