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
ocean thinking oysters
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
humorous sarcasm thinking
"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."
revenge thinking law
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
thinking gentleman pockets
I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
thinking two brain
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
thinking law drs
So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four
men thinking good-man
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
war men thinking
It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
eye thinking three
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
thinking impatience should
I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
men thinking darkness
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
thinking secret mysterious
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
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.
thinking instinct our-future
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.