It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame. Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes From Arthur Conan Doyle It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle strangenessmysterymistake Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. Arthur Conan Doyle ruinsnoblemind I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. Arthur Conan Doyle revengelawthinking The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me. Arthur Conan Doyle canadavoice Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. Arthur Conan Doyle halloweengrievingnight All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. Arthur Conan Doyle specialistslearningmen It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes. Arthur Conan Doyle starscountrychildren The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. Arthur Conan Doyle ablemathscience Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears. Arthur Conan Doyle fatherchildrenmoving Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night. Arthur Conan Doyle painrunningbook He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. Arthur Conan Doyle eyecompassiondark "I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation." Arthur Conan Doyle faithscienceknowledge I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. Arthur Conan Doyle speak The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter. Arthur Conan Doyle horsequeensbook I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right. Arthur Conan Doyle brotherbookart Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. Arthur Conan Doyle markmindchess Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through. Arthur Conan Doyle eyeprinciplesthinking To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted. Arthur Conan Doyle evildarkson Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself. Arthur Conan Doyle cloudsheartmen Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. Arthur Conan Doyle novelistssorrowjoy
