Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes - Page 3

These relics have a history then?'
'So much so that they are history.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

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.

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"

[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.]

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.'
'I shall be delighted.'
'You don't mind breaking the law?'
'Not in the least.'
'Nor running a chance of arrest?'
'Not in a good cause.'
'Oh, the cause is excellent!'
'Then I am your man.'
'I was sure that I might rely on you.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.

- Watson

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.