Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Night Quotes

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.

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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

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It is more than possible; it is probable.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

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

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

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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.

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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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