Arthur Conan Doyle

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#doctor-watson #escape #late-visit #scrambling #sherlock-holmes

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#business

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#devil #evil #mankind #truth #sherlock-holmes

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #sir-arthur-conan-doyle #the-final-problem #sherlock-holmes

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#happiness #violin #food

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence...The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#derived #frequently #important #keenest #least

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#nature

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #detectives #intellect #london #sherlock-holmes