“ As they formed into ranks, each man dropping silently into his place, Sir Nigel ran a questioning eye over them, and a smile of pleasure played over his face. Tall and sinewy, and brown, clear-eyed, h… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ For in days when books were few and readers scarce, a long memory and a ready tongue were of the more value; Arthur Conan Doyle
“ There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonish… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ 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 achi… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first ins… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing late… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light 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 gain… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow. Arthur Conan Doyle
