Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

• Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Holmes, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.206, GENERAL PRESS

• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Peace, Truth, Fall

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.551, Jazzybee Verlag

• Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Literature, Ghost

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.73

• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

• As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Faces, Mysterious

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.43

• I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Real, Character

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: Children's Classics”, p.110, Everyman's Library

• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Events, Literature, Facts

  "The Five Orange Pips" (1891). The key words here are "in all its bearings" and "thoroughly." In real life, of course, it's deucedly difficult.

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Doctors, Doe

  The Speckled Band

• Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, Literature, Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.21

• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Literature, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ignorance, Literature, Study

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Philosophy, Book, Ignorance

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1316, GENERAL PRESS

• London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  London, Empires, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

• The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Track, Literature, Crime

  Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Writing, Years

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8381, Delphi Classics

• If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Moments, Obscure

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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