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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson Picture Quote #1

Like all Holmes’ reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes Picture Quote #1

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes Picture Quote #1

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson Picture Quote #1

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson Picture Quote #1

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love Picture Quote #1

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before Picture Quote #1

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy Picture Quote #1

I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business Picture Quote #1

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge Picture Quote #1

I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose Picture Quote #1

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us Picture Quote #1

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The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time Picture Quote #1

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love Picture Quote #1

The division seems rather unfair, I remarkedYou have doneall the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones getsthe credit, pray what remains for you?For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains thecocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up forit Picture Quote #1

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things Picture Quote #1

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner Picture Quote #1

Himself down into an armchairYou see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room. Frequently. How often? Well, some hundreds of times. Then how many are there? How many? I don’t Picture Quote #1

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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife Picture Quote #1

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Picture Quote #1

Dear girl, continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it! Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude Picture Quote #1

Who knows, Watson? Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male Picture Quote #1

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones Picture Quote #1

It is quite a three pipe problem Picture Quote #1

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination Picture Quote #1

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important Picture Quote #1

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men Picture Quote #1

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman Picture Quote #1

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Like all Holmes’ reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The division seems rather unfair, I remarkedYou have doneall the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones getsthe credit, pray what remains for you?For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains thecocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up forit. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Himself down into an armchairYou see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room. Frequently. How often? Well, some hundreds of times. Then how many are there? How many? I don’t (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Dear girl, continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it! Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Who knows, Watson? Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) It is quite a three pipe problem (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) 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 (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes)

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