“ Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ 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 ambi… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.''That was the curious incident,' remar… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of yo… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My mind, he said, rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then w… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, sav… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What a lovely thing a rose is!He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of hi… Arthur Conan Doyle