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Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Picture Quote #1

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth Picture Quote #1

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest Picture Quote #1

There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it Picture Quote #1

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home Picture Quote #1

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles Picture Quote #1

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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

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts Picture Quote #1

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order Picture Quote #1

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil Picture Quote #1

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell Picture Quote #1

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart Picture Quote #1

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction Picture Quote #1

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone Picture Quote #1

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? Picture Quote #1

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know Picture Quote #1

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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last Picture Quote #1

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.’ ‘I shall be delighted.’ ‘You don’t mind breaking the law?’ ‘Not in the least.’ ‘Nor running a chance of arrest?’ ‘Not in a good cause.’ ‘Oh, the cause is excellent!’ ‘Then I am your man.’ ‘I was sure that I might rely on you Picture Quote #1

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools Picture Quote #1

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable Picture Quote #1

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! Picture Quote #1

Well, I’m a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye Picture Quote #1

I have my own views about Nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his Picture Quote #1

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears Picture Quote #1

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! Picture Quote #1

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson Picture Quote #1

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles (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) What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) 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 (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.’ ‘I shall be delighted.’ ‘You don’t mind breaking the law?’ ‘Not in the least.’ ‘Nor running a chance of arrest?’ ‘Not in a good cause.’ ‘Oh, the cause is excellent!’ ‘Then I am your man.’ ‘I was sure that I might rely on you (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) 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 (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) Well, I’m a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) I have my own views about Nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes) One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson (Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes)

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