Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DLwas an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 May 1859
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
Arthur Conan Doyle quotes about
women literature holmes
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
time knowledge useless
Depend upon it 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.
example milk trout
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
track literature crime
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
life writing careers
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
science literature logic
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
london empires idlers
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
ignorance literature study
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
knowledge doctors doe
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
math water logic
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
joy sorrow novelists
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
humorous sarcasm wells
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
humorous mean sarcasm
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
humorous sarcasm advancement
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .