“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.”
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
“The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.”
“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow men.”
“I am a poor man’s consultant.”
“A client to me is a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
“It is a good thing to know the worst, for it is at the worst that one can lay plans for the better.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
“The little things are infinitely the most important.”
“It 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.”
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“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
“We can but try — the motto of the firm.”
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.”
“The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
“There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“You will not apply my precept, he said, shaking his head. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
“There is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do.”
“The game is afoot.”
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
“You know my methods, Watson.”
“When I hear you give your reasons, I seem to see it all as plain as a map.”
“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes :
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem.”
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”
“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.”
“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
“The air of London is the sweeter for my presence.”
“My professional charges are upon a fixed scale. I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.”
“I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.”
“It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.”
“There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.”
“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.”
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.”
“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“We should be prepared for any change of fortune.”
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use.”
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“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.”
“There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.”
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
“It is always a joy to meet an American, for he is the kindest, most straightforward and most generous of men.”
“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
“One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.”
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
“You have erred, perhaps, but you are guilty of no crime.”
“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.”
“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“A woman’s instinct is often as true as a man’s reasoning.”
“I play the game for the game’s own sake.”
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
“The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money.”
“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence.”