Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson."

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe) — We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

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

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

"You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle."

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

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

- The Adventure of the Dying Detective

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

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