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
life men mind
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
business names people
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
waiting heroism done
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
holmes watson ifs
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
nature humorous sarcasm
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
holmes remains deductions
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
humorous eye sarcasm
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
men years holmes
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
acting way best-way
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
brain racing pieces
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
medicine fiction fancy
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'
mind littles great-minds
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
hands weather trying
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
gentleman furniture violence
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!