Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.”

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”

“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.”

“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.”

“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”