Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Writer, Physician

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer known for creating Sherlock Holmes, a character that revolutionized detective fiction.

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Born
May 22, 1859
Died
July 7, 1930
Quotes
426
Rank
#398

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"Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world."

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"There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy."

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"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)"

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"I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being."

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"If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one."

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"Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love."

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"I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us."

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"It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . ."

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"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you."

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"'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law."

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"Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way."

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"An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . ."

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"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."

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"You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."

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"A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation."

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"The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question."

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"The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell."

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