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
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.
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 . . .
humorous sarcasm age
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
spiritual san-francisco america
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.
men evil worry
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'
education zero philosophy
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
home crime difficult
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
data reason dangerous
How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.
spring men civilization
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.