Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

There was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.

It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.