Arthur Conan Doyle quotes

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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