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
lying humorous sarcasm
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
coffee land sandwiches
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
beautiful eye years
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
A change of work is the best rest.
real lying greatness
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
actors crime stage
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
terror known
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
thinking doctors holmes
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
boys simple men
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
hands giving reassuring
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
divorce writing infidelity
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
use institutions valuable
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
men may realizing
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.