01UndatedFrom the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
02UndatedA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
03UndatedLife is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
04UndatedWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
05UndatedMy dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
06UndatedIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
08UndatedIs there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.''That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
09UndatedI'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
10UndatedThere are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
11UndatedThe ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
12UndatedThere is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
14UndatedYou will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
16UndatedA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
17UndatedPicnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
18UndatedWhat a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
20UndatedIt's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
21UndatedI think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
22UndatedIt has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
23UndatedIt is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
24UndatedIt may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
