Quotes By Arthur Conan Doyle

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

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

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

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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.