Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Nature, Morning

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

• ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Ambition, Drug

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.4

• I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Brother, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies (1998). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Morning, Ambition

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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