The Complete Professor Challenger Stories Quotes

“You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: 'What you say is natural, but if you had seen what I have seen you might alter your opinion'. Perhaps sometime you will be able to look into the matter, for your high position in the scientific world would give your opinion great weight.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER Premium Collection: The Lost World – The Poison Belt– The Land of Mist – The Disintegration Machine - When The World Screamed

“Yet Poe was a drunkard, and Coleridge an addict, and Byron a rake, and Verlaine a degenerate. You have to separate the man from the thing. The genius has to pay a ransom for his genius in the instability of his temperament. A great medium is even more sensitive than a genius. Many are beautiful in their lives. Some are not. The excuse for them is great. They practise a most exhausting profession and stimulants are needed. Then they lose control. But their physical mediumship carries on all the same.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER Premium Collection: The Lost World – The Poison Belt– The Land of Mist – The Disintegration Machine - When The World Screamed

“I wish you to understand that there is one man, and only one, for each woman, and one woman only for each man. When those two meet they fly together and are one through all the endless chain of existence. Until they meet all unions are mere accidents which have no meaning. Sooner or later each couple becomes complete. It may not be here. It may be in the next sphere where the sexes meet as they do on earth. Or it may be further delayed. But every man and every woman has his or her affinity, and will find it. Of earthly marriages perhaps one in five is permanent. The others are accidental. Real marriage is of the soul and spirit. Sex actions are a mere external symbol which mean nothing and are foolish, or even pernicious, when the thing which they should symbolize is wanting. Am I clear?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER Premium Collection: The Lost World – The Poison Belt– The Land of Mist – The Disintegration Machine - When The World Screamed

“People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER Premium Collection: The Lost World – The Poison Belt– The Land of Mist – The Disintegration Machine - When The World Screamed

“THE love-affair of Enid Challenger and Edward Malone is not of the slightest interest to the reader, for the simple reason that it is not of the slightest interest to the writer. The unseen, unnoticed lure of the unborn babe is common to all youthful humanity. We deal in this chronicle with matters which are less common and of higher interest. It is only mentioned in order to explain those terms of frank and intimate comradeship which the narrative discloses. If the human race has obviously improved in anything —in Anglo-Celtic countries, at least —it is that the prim affectations and sly deceits of the past are lessened, and that young men and women can meet in an equality of clean and honest comradeship.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER Premium Collection: The Lost World – The Poison Belt– The Land of Mist – The Disintegration Machine - When The World Screamed

“always been in favour of the former, as had the old leaders of the movement and the present organized Spiritualist Churches.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Challenger Complete Collection : he Lost World | The Poison Belt | The Land of Mist | The Disintegration Machine | When the World Screamed | Original Edition Annotated

“It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course. Smith”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Challenger Complete Collection : he Lost World | The Poison Belt | The Land of Mist | The Disintegration Machine | When the World Screamed | Original Edition Annotated