Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

• When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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  Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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• When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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  The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

   

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• 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

• Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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  Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

   

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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Arthur Conan Doyle (83)

Birth:	22nd May, 1859
Death:	7th July, 1930
Nationality:	British, Scottish
Profession:	Novelist, Physician, Poet, Writer

About

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a British physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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