“ The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsi… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ [O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You may not appreciate them at first. You may pine for your novel of crude and unadulterated adventu… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic la… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look of a… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Arthur Conan Doyle
