QUOTES by Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?”
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“Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist?”
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“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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“Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.”
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“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.”
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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.”
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“Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.”
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“Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it”
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“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.”
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“If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.”
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“Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.”
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“The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.”
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“Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
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“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.”
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“It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.”
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“...I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present.”
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“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”
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“My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.”
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“There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.”
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“My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser.”
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“Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes”
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“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
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“Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.”
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“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.”
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“There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.”
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“By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.”
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“In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.”
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“It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.”
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“But the Solar System!” I protested. “What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
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“Who are you, then?” “My name is Sherlock Holmes.” “Good Lord!” “You have heard of me, I see.”
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“Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”
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“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.”
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“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.”
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“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views.
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“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance”
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“It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.”
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“It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.”
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