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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.


Arthur Doyle

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.

A fool always finds a greater fool to ad...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travele...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we we...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The pub...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he. “I am.” “I ought to make you si...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am inclined to think--” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I be...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is easy to be wise after the event.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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