8 Quotes Tagged: arthur-conan-doyle

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

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

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

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

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

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.

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.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.