Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

British author

Lived from: 1859 - 1930

Category: Scientists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 may 1859 Died: 7 july 1930

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  • It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
    The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)
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  • It is more than possible; it is probable.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
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  • It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
    The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342
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  • It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
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  • It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
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  • Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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  • Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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  • 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. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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  • Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
    Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (2016) 206
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  • Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
    His Last Bow (1917)
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  • Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
    The Sign of the Four (1890) ch. 6
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  • Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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  • Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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  • The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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  • The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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  • The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
    Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
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  • There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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  • There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
    The Lost World (2015) 72
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  • There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.
    His Last Bow (1917)
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  • There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
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