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
children real character
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
games cried watson
Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
ocean dark sea
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
sweet nature morning
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
lessons lasts ends
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
silly literature ghost
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
holmes cases persons
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
life men mind
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
fate world way
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
memories trifles reader
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
men average numbers
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
courage stupid anticipation
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
art blood form
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
passion picnics firsts
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.