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
men mind matter
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
childhood would-be generations
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
thrown
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
satisfaction vengeance realizing
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A change of work is the best rest.
real lying greatness
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
hands paper found
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
taken wit
I have taken to living by my wits.
men better-man
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
community criminals fortunate
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
world spirit window
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
men natural-talent names
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
men london quiet
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
missed-you holmes ive-missed-you
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.