Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we’re all deductive geniuses.
– Rob Thomas
Related Quotes:
- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Anything is better than stagnation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels – chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It’s every man’s business to see justice done. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Who knows, Watson? Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is only goodness which gives extra… – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is only goodness which gives extra… – Arthur Conan Doyle
- When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- My job is to know what other people do not know. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy. – Arthur Conan Doyle