Quotessence
Home / Books / Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Book by Arthur Conan Doyle · 2 quotes · Men, Ifs, May

Filter quotes by topic

Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics) Quotes

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

“'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'”