"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
---Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"'Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. - Sherlock Holmes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"presume nothing"
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes)

"So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World)

""Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"The game is afoot."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Everything 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 Doyle (The Valley of Fear)

"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories)

"What one man can invent, another can discover."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes)

"'I followed you.'

'I saw no one.'

'That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.'"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Sign of Four)

""I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories)

"One must wait till it comes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World)

"The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"You know my methods, Watson"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Here is my lens. You know my methods."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

""It is an old theory of mine that once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Return of Sherlock Holmes; A study in scarlet)

"...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt"
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 12 Titles)

"Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar.
El caso de Lady Sannox"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

""By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

"Because I looked for it.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"We can but try."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (Arthur Conan Doyle Collection: The Hound of the Baskervilles/The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes/The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire)

"Could he throw no light?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done."
— Arthur Conan Doyle