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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Inspirational, Truth, Philosophy
"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (1892).

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Routine, Daily Life, Share
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.29

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Art, Free Education, Accomplishment
Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.371, Top Five Books LLC

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, History, Individual
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.439, Wildside Press LLC

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Cold, Should, Unemotional
The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Science, Literature, Logic
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Cabbage, Holy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The White Company”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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 good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sweet, Nature, Morning
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Commonplace, Depends, Unnatural
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'A Case of Identity'.

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Wise, Ocean, Anchors
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger Book 2)”, p.58, Arthur Conan Doyle

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Learning, Men, Specialists
1917 His Last Bow,'Bruce-Partington Plans'.

Violence recoils on the violent.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence, Violent, Recoil

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Holmes, One Man
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903).

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Energy, Batteries, Exhausted
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.109, Arthur Conan Doyle

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sports, Appreciation, Drama
H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.161, Wildside Press LLC

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

Arthur Conan Doyle
House, Feelings, Mind
Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.612, Jazzybee Verlag

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Literature, Faces, Mysterious
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.43

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Hands, Weather, Trying
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.84, GENERAL PRESS

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature, Humorous, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Stark Munro Letters”, p.92, The Floating Press

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Brother, Humorous, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mistake, Writing, What Matters
Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.7, Prestwick House Inc

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

Arthur Conan Doyle
Horse, Middle, Ends

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Dream, Wall, Eye
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Matter, Moral, Problem
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.30, Arthur Conan Doyle

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, May, Realizing
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.639, Ageless Reads

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