Top 25 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle of 426 - Page 12

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Horse, Past, Ears

Arthur Conan Doyle (2008). “The Napoleonic Trilogy”, p.331, Fireship Press

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Struggle, Purpose, Exhausted

1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "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 perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Circles, Paper, Violence

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cells, Years, Would Be

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.37, BoD - Books on Demand

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Children, Father, Moving

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.356, BoD - Books on Demand

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime, Professors, Mathematical

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Love, Good Night, Hands

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “The Stark Munro Letters: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Reason

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.29, Zillmann Publishing

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Rocks, Water, Gazing

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Common, Logic, Crime

1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fate, Rivers, May

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Shoes, Lazy, Devil

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hounds, Incidents, Grotesque

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.874, Ageless Reads

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Spiritual, San Francisco, America

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Law, Citizens, Good Citizen

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.1124, Wordsworth Editions

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Strong, Cheer, House

Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Stars, Men, Names

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Impatience, Holmes

1915 The Valley of Fear, ch.1.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Thinking, Good Man

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.524, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Soul, Body, Frantic

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1607, Ageless Reads

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Imagination, Black

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.121, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Laughter, Laughing, Laugh Often

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

Arthur Conan Doyle (2017). “ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…”, p.5081, e-artnow

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sorry, Humorous, Eye

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.36, 谷月社