01c. 1894 ADDark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
02c. 1894 ADYou yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
03c. 1894 ADHe was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
04c. 1894 ADI should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
05c. 1894 ADMy 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. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
07c. 1894 ADThe charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
08c. 1894 ADMy dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”—Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper BeechesArthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
09c. 1894 ADBeyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
10c. 1894 ADThe affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
11c. 1894 ADWhat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
12c. 1894 ADMy mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
13c. 1894 ADTake a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
14c. 1894 ADI follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
15c. 1894 ADThe Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
16c. 1894 ADI must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
18c. 1894 ADIt is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
20c. 1894 ADMy 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.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
21c. 1894 ADDepend 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.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
23c. 1894 ADOnce you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
