Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. The Musgrave Ritual - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

2. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

3. From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

4. 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. Silver Blaze

5. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

6. It is easy to be wise after the event. The Complete Sherlock Holmes

7. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

8. The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? The Hound of the Baskervilles

9. Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.10. Plays the violin well.11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law. A Study in Scarlet

10. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. The Hound of the Baskervilles

11. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

12. It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

13. The proper study of mankind is man," you know.''You must study him, then, A Study in Scarlet

14. The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

15. There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

16. What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "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. The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story