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
way holmes professional-experience
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
fate steps dramatic
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
lying twilight heart
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
cried inspectors
By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it.
afghanistan perceive has-beens
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
danger cubs holmes
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
thinking law drs
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
heart wickedness holmes
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
silly angel half
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.
men self satisfaction
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
men thinking good-man
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
office people treasure
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
clever turns adaptable
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
selfish wife association
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.