Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.