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
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.
links life-is chains
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
running blank-mind steps
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
holmes cases persons
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
horse middle ends
horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle
crime bigger obvious
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
inspirational truth philosophy
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
imagination effort literature
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
book historical doubt
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
silly literature ghost
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
business clients problem
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
nature science ideas
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.