The Adventure of the Lion's Mane Quotes

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

- Sherlock Holmes in "The Lion's Mane”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“Well, you’ve done it!’ he cried at last. ‘I have read of you, but I never believed it. It’s wonderful!’
I was forced to shake my head. To accept such praise was to lower one’s own standards.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“It was true that I loved this lady, but from the day when she chose my friend McPherson my one desire was to help her to happiness. I was well content to stand aside and act as their go-between.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“He gulped down brandy, a whole bottle full, and it seems to have saved his life.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“You will know, or Watson has written in vain, that I hold a vast store of out-of-the-way knowledge without scientific system, but very available for the needs of my work. My mind is like a crowded box-room with packets of all sorts stored away therein - so many that I may well have but a vague perception of what was there.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“Thank you,’ said I. ‘I value a woman’s instinct in such matters.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“Who could have imagined that so rare a flower would grow from such a root and in such an atmosphere. Women have seldom been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart, but I could not look upon her perfect clear-cut face, with all the soft freshness of the downlands in her delicate colouring, without realizing that no young man would cross her path unscathed.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“Then, as nothing more suggested itself, I walked back to my house for breakfast, having first arranged that the base of the cliffs should be thoroughly searched.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane