Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is easy to be wise after the event.

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

“Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better”

“There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact”

“Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life”

“Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.”

“We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.”

“Who mocks at music mocks at love.”

“Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.”

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a womans love, however badly he may have treated her.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention? To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The dog did nothing in the night-time.That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Im not a psychopath, Im a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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

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

What a lovely thing a rose is!He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion, said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. 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.

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

Its 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 was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.The board-schools.Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.