Quotes By Arthur Conan Doyle

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

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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.

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.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.