Arthur Conan Doyle Literature Quotations

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

As a rule, said Holmes, 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.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,