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
believe people done
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
office people treasure
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
fashion people credit
Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
light giving people
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.
business names people
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
people soul violence
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
light people genius
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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?