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
motivational matter impossible
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
life wisdom past
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
peace truth fall
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
love our-actions command
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
smile beautiful records
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
dull would-be world
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
silence holmes companion
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
book scent ancient
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
halloween imagination scary
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
light people genius
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.
women may too-much
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
believe knowledge thinking
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
people soul violence
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
art blood form
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.