Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes From Arthur Conan Doyle Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them. Arthur Conan Doyle armyangelstruggle I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. Arthur Conan Doyle holmesimpatiencethinking If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding. Arthur Conan Doyle starsjobsmoving Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. Arthur Conan Doyle heartmorningbook Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. Arthur Conan Doyle starsnamesmen We have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle embellishmentplantflower I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us. Arthur Conan Doyle londonhatecities It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood. Arthur Conan Doyle childhoodsciencehistory The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question. Arthur Conan Doyle prosperityofficebook The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose. Arthur Conan Doyle destinyfoodmorning The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . . Arthur Conan Doyle doctorssarcasmhumorous I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousage I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousreason An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . Arthur Conan Doyle advancementsarcasmhumorous My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. Arthur Conan Doyle uncleshumoroussuccessful We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands. Arthur Conan Doyle wrestlingartfall A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. Arthur Conan Doyle horsehumorousbeautiful Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousscience "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy." Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousmuseums "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel." Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousthinking
