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 winning men
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
children father moving
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.
children real character
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
children boys men
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
country stars children
It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
children real character
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
blood devil agents
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
common logic crime
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
research sociopath psychopath
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
mind answers
Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
imagination mystery horror
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
mind ruins noble
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
let-me shortcomings
Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
routine daily-life bizarre
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.