Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

Sex has been around for a long time. You may not believe this, but it was around before I was.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."