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Famous Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
“I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”
“When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.”
“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”
“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”
“Anything is better than stagnation.”
“I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.”
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”