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
halloween night grieving
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
sorrow holmes dear
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
method holmes observation
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
book ambition soul
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
pain detective-work genius
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
house feelings mind
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
smoking three fifty
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
holmes said exciting
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
rose lovely lovely-things
What a lovely thing a rose is!
running blank-mind steps
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
crime bigger obvious
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
imagination effort literature
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
inspirational truth philosophy
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.