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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Nature, Ideas, open-minded
“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Quiet, Depression, Alone
“I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: Lows, Highs, surviving
“I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: Tired, Work, Bored
“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Flowers, Goodness, beauty
“If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: clever, Destruction, Threats
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red Headed League
Tagged: Escape, Distraction, Boring
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tagged: Action, Adventure, Energy
“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Alone, Lonely, Friends
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tagged: Stimulating, Problems
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Knowledge, explanation, inelligence
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: impossible, Possible, Truth
“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: Love, emotions, Reason
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: humans, predictable, Mathematics
“You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Universe, Stars, Solar System
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: minds, Brains, Knowledge
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Imagination, Horror, Pain
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Work, Career, Distraction
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Mistakes, strange, Mystery
“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: dramatic, Drama, Drama Queen
“A change of work is the best rest.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: Work, Changes, Rest
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tagged: Women, Love, Death
“Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Ghosts, Love, Past
“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tagged: Women, Love, Eyes
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tagged: devil, Evil, humans
“Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The SIgn Of Four
Tagged: Mistakes, Flaws, Shit Happens
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Music, Words, Songs
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: Brains, Knowledge, Facts, Intelligence
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