Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes: 19

• When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

• It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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

• We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

• There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

  The Red Headed League

• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  A Case of Identity

• There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

• 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.

  Silver Blaze

• My dear Watson,"said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

  The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

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

  The Musgrave Ritual

• There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

• It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

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

• It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

• There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

• The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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

  The Naval Treaty

• There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

  The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes