Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Matilda Briggs…was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

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

‘I am inclined to think—’said I. ‘I should do so,’ Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.

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

Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department.

You mentioned your nameas if I should recognise it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation.

They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

‘Excellent!’, I cried. ‘Elementary’, said he.

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

A long shot, Watson; a very long shot!

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

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.