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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Coffee, Land, Sandwiches
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Zillmann Publishing

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Hands, Paper, Found
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.516, Race Point Pub

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Beautiful, Horse, Humorous
Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne (2011). “The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle
London, Empires, Idlers
A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mind, Chess, Mark
Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1746, W. W. Norton & Company

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Voice, Canada
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Poetry of Arthur Conan Doyle”, p.58, eBookIt.com

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Hate, Cities, London
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4434, Delphi Classics

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Spring, May, Source
"The White Company".

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Memories, Ideas, Race
1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Simplicity, Drs, Holmes

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, Office, Prosperity
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Firm of Girdlestone”, p.7, The Floating Press

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Country, Stars, Children
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.250

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Blow, Two Sides
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, Character, Would Be
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Afghanistan, Perceive, Has Beens
A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Boys, Details, Never Trust
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart, Men, Clouds
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.104, ebookspub

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Ocean, Thinking, Oysters
Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.832, Wordsworth Editions

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Advancement
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6180, Delphi Classics

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Joy, Sorrow, Novelists
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Doe
Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Taken, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5605, Delphi Classics

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Athlete, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Doors, Practice, Addiction
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.106, Arthur Conan Doyle

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