Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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.

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

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

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

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes