Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Dogs don’t make mistakes.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! – and that! – and that! – and that!

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.