Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wife, Bottles, Credit

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

• Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Family, Wife, Steel

• The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Selfish, Wife, Association

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1043, Race Point Pub

• Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Wife, Inspire

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.834, Race Point Publishing

• Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Father, Moving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.356, BoD - Books on Demand

• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Wife, Teeth

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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