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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Race
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1779, Delphi Classics

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Names
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

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

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Eye, Sarcasm
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.13, Zillmann Publishing

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Doctors
Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.106, Fireship Press

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Wells
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.301, Courier Dover Publications

I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Wings
Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Lying, Humorous, Sarcasm
Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.230, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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

"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

"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

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

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

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.174, My Ebook Publishing House

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Science
The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Past
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Museums
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Age
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.612, Race Point Pub

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