I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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