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
issues nails boots
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
use stills comrade
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
fifty reason
There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
time sight alternatives
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.
strong men weak-man
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
learning men specialists
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
water soul
The soul is swayed by the waters.
order cities evil
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.
literature moments obscure
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,
europe darkness brain
When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.
speak
I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
smoking three problem
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
imagination balance use
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
unrequited-love men sides
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.