Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes about Literature

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Track, Literature, Crime

Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Silly, Literature, Ghost

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.73

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Imagination, Effort, Literature

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ignorance, Literature, Study

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature, Holmes, Cases

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.206, GENERAL PRESS

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Women, Literature, Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.21

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

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

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Events, Literature, Facts

"The Five Orange Pips" (1891). The key words here are "in all its bearings" and "thoroughly." In real life, of course, it's deucedly difficult.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature, Moments, Obscure

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag