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
holmes said exciting
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
rose lovely lovely-things
What a lovely thing a rose is!
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.
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.
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.
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.
children real character
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
games cried watson
Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
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.
sweet nature morning
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
silly literature ghost
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
holmes cases persons
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
life men mind
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
fate world way
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.