To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes From Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. Arthur Conan Doyle holmescases I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? Arthur Conan Doyle foghouseyellow Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. Arthur Conan Doyle liablebloodart So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. Arthur Conan Doyle chainslinkslife-is 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. Arthur Conan Doyle doctorsarmybook You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter. Arthur Conan Doyle good-nightlovehands if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. Arthur Conan Doyle destructioninterestaccepting While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. Arthur Conan Doyle numbersaveragemen I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. Arthur Conan Doyle triflesreadermemories You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. Arthur Conan Doyle wedding-anniversaryheartlove Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle dogwishnight I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Arthur Conan Doyle appendixmerebrain It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? Arthur Conan Doyle what-mattersmistakewriting 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. Arthur Conan Doyle eventsliteraturefacts It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man. Arthur Conan Doyle unrequited-lovememorablemen Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. Arthur Conan Doyle mindhousefeelings My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! Arthur Conan Doyle exaltationmindgiving The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. Arthur Conan Doyle obviouscrimebigger A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. Arthur Conan Doyle businessbrainmen There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. Arthur Conan Doyle cleanyoungjustice
