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Arthur Conan Doyle  Quotes
When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The latter yawned and tossed the end of his cigarette into...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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BaskervillesSherlock-Holmes
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…above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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InspirationWorry
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur-Conan-DoyleDesultory-ReadersLearning
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The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Adventure
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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Self-Confidence
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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.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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MoriartySherlock-HolmesSir-Arthur-Conan-Doyle
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One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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AlternativeHolmesSherlock
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Reason
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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HumorLifePassion
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It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Spirituality
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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing,” mused the Inspector, “Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times… What do you think of this,...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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InspectorIronyMurder
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Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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CrimeGemsGreed
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Evidence
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I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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AnalogyBoswellChronicler
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock-Holmes
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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...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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FictionMysterySherlock-Holmes
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What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Life-Philosophy
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Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H.” It was a nice...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Doctor-WatsonSarcasmSherlock-Holmes
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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Well, and there is the end of our little drama,” I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. “I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dr-WatsonEngagementMary-Morstan
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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ActingDisguiseMethod-Acting
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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CloudsLondonMorning
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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

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AccomplishmentBeliefRewriting-History
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Meu caro amigo (…), a vida é infinitamente mais estranha que qualquer coisa que a mente do homem possa inventar. Não nos atreveríamos a conceber coisas que são, afinal, lugares-comuns da existência. Se pudéssemos sair...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Inspirational-Attitude
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Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Admitting-FaultsSherlockSnuff
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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GentlemenRevolverSherlock-Holmes
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…So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock-Holmes
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I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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HumorLogicReason
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Inspirational
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Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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BeautyCrimeImpunity
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.” ~ Sherlock Holmes

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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MysterySherlockSherlock-Holmes
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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ActorCrimeStage
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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...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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ReligionRoseRoses
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock-Holmes
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No ghosts need apply. – Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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GhostsHolmesianRealism
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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...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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BrainLibrary
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It’s a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this.”I thought he was joking, for the view...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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BeaconsDoctor-WatsonFuture
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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CourageStupidityValor
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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.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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FateGood-And-EvilSherlock-Holmes
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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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AdmirerFoolHolmes
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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John-WatsonSherlock-Holmes
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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o’clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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HolmesJohn-WatsonSherlock-Holmes
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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

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ConvenienceExigenceFavor
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I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels – chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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BusinessChapsDetective-Novels
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Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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HumilitySherlock-Holmes
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I must apologize for calling so late,” said he, “and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Back-Garden-WallDoctor-WatsonEscape
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My business is that of every other good citizen – to uphold the law.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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