At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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The game is afoot.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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