Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

A forced marriage is no marriage.

I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a filed for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward.

Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

A large number merely strange

For the love of his art

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.