Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

My 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

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime.

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.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.