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
believe heart bricks-and-mortar
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.
humorous sarcasm names
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
flower giving goodness
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
men holmes one-man
What one man can invent, another can discover.
holmes said exciting
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
ocean dark sea
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
book ambition soul
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
two soul links
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
games cried watson
Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
crime professors mathematical
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
book army doctors
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
literature facts events
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
motivational work giving
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
water soul
The soul is swayed by the waters.