Quotes By Arthur Conan Doyle

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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.