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Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“To a great mind, nothing is little” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“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.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“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.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,—or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“I have given you rather more of my time than I had intended. The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence . . . The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“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.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“You know my methods. Apply them!” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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