Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes - Page 3

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• Dogs don't make mistakes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, Dog

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.392

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• Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thrown

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.81, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Life Is

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• Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Gun, Night, Relax

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.57, House of Stratus

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• It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Community, Criminals, Fortunate

  "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908)

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• Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorrow, Holmes, Dear

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.871, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Criticism, Matter

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• So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Links, Life Is, Chains

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.15, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Believe, People, Done

  "Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear".

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• There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.526, Race Point Publishing

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• The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Names

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

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• We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Consistency, Deception, Looks

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1109, Race Point Publishing

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• It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, Important

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.142

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• To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Littles, Great Minds

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)”, p.1434, BookRix

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• To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Racing, Brain, Pieces

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.789, Wordsworth Editions

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• You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Method, Holmes, Observation

  1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'.

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• One must wait till it comes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Waiting

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fifty, Reason

  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.84, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

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  Holmes, Remains, Factors

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brother, Hate, Hot

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “Sir Nigel: A Novel of the Hundred Years' War”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• 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

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• We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Balance, Use

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.36, ebookspub

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• It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Book, Small Numbers

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8373, Delphi Classics

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• It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  War, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company”, p.81, Booklassic

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• No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Gentleman, Violence, Furniture

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1988). “The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes”, p.714, Jaico Publishing House

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