Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”—Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.