Top 500 Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

452. “Seclusion I can understand; but why print? Printing is a clumsy process. Why not write? What would it suggest, Watson?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

453. “One must wait till it comes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

454. “I spent the night in town, for I came up yesterday.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

455. “We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

456. “I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place. It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

457. “In any case, Watson, you have turned out to be a prize flat-mate. I couldn’t have asked for better.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

458. “Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

459. “The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact – of absolute undeniable fact – from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

460. “Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

461. “It isn’t true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

462. “His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. A very different Holmes, this active, alert man, from the introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. I felt, as I looked upon that supple, figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

463. “Science of Deduction.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

464. “It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

465. “The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

466. “I was forced to agree.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

467. “Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

468. “It is just all the difference between happiness and misery,” said Challenger with an abstracted face, still patting his wife’s hand. “You can swim with the tide and have peace in mind and soul, or you can thrust against it and be bruised and weary. This business is beyond us, so let us accept it as it stands and say no more.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

469. “But what will not be forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations, is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent race may build a more worthy temple.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

470. “Pinner. “‘Thank you very much,’ said he; ‘I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance to me.’ “‘It took some time,’ said I.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

471. “It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

472. “It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber, and no more congenial surroundings.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

473. “And now let us talk about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all minor matters until to-morrow.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

474. “I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

475. “The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain. It.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

476. “I shall never do that,′ I answered; ’you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

477. “It’s true that you set us on the right track; but you’ll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

478. “That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger nature has awoke within her. There are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

479. “I think Mr. Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet. He’s been behaving very queerly, and he is very much excited.” “I don’t think you need alarm yourself,” said I. “I have usually found that there was method in his madness.” “Some folks might say there was madness in his method,” muttered the Inspector.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

480. “My business is that of every other good citizen – to uphold the law.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

481. “Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. “There is one of our bacilli squeaking for help,” said he with a grim smile. “They are beginning to realise that their continued existence is not really one of the necessities of the universe.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

482. “As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

483. “To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson – all else will come.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

484. “When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

485. “There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

486. “When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair. High and strong the chateaux, lowly and weak the brushwood hut; but God help the seigneur and his lady when the men of the brushwood set their hands to the work of revenge! Through.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

487. “But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend. One knew that thus, and only thus, could a solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

488. “I have asked myself if the best which can be done with virtue is to shut it within high walls as though it were some savage creature. If the good will lock themselves up, and if the wicked will still wander free, then alas for the world!” Alleyne.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

489. “For some reason altogether beyond our conception – and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

490. “Le nostre idee devono essere grandiose quanto la natura, se devono interpretare la natura stessa.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

491. “I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. – Sherlock Holmes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

492. “It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

493. “What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. “What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

494. “It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

495. “Could he throw no light?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

496. “Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

497. “You can understand,′ said Holmes very suavely, ’that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

498. “This case deserves to be a classic.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

499. “Puedes reconocer a un viejo maestro por el trayecto de su pincel.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

500. “A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle