Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

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.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

We cant command our love, but we can our actions.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I consider that a mans brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”