Arthur Conan Doyle Quotations | Page 2

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.