Anything is better than stagnation.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAnything is better than stagnation.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou see, but you do not observe.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEPicnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEverything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHis Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE