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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Woman | Clicks: 371 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Imagination | Clicks: 193 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Truth | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Medicine | Clicks: 135 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Violence | Clicks: 177 | Rank: 8.00 | Fav

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.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Crime | Clicks: 207 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Idea | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Truth | Clicks: 421 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull...

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 173 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Human imperfections | Clicks: 425 | Rank: 8.00 | Fav

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) | Theme: Fear | Clicks: 179 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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