Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Brain, character, soul — only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.

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

One must wait till it comes.

If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

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

There were no footmarks.'
'Meaning that you saw none?'
'I assure you, sir, that there were none.'
'My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.

Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other… So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

"... but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all." - Sherlock Holmes

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

"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."