Sherlock

50 Mind Expanding Quotes From The Original Sherlock By Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow. 
Holly Riordan
January 10, 2017
“Education never ends, Watson. ”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Education, Learning, Knowledge
“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.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Dogs, Pets, Animals
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: actions, Beliefs
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Tagged: Brain, Mind, Intelligence
“What one man can invent, another can discover.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes(2 Volumes)
Tagged: inventions, Discoveries, humanity
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes(2 Volumes)
Tagged: Life, strange, inventions
“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes(2 Volumes)
Tagged: Lunatics, Psychopaths, Insanity
“Life is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
Tagged: Education, Death, Life Lessons
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Tagged: Knowledge, Intelligence, Mind
“Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
Tagged: convenience, plans, humor
“The game is afoot.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Tagged: Action, Adventure, The Game
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Tagged: minds, Brains, Knowledge
“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
“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
“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.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual
Tagged: Women, Love, Breakups
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip
Tagged: Wisdom, Knowledge, old age
“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
“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: dramatic, Drama, Drama Queen
“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
“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
“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Soul, Body, Jealousy