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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes
«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.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Libraries,
Mankind
| Keywords:
furniture, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, put away, stocked, stocked with
«Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else»
«My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
acrid, armchair, armchairs, blurred, clay pipe, coarse, coil, coiled, Coils, coughing, dressing, dressing gown, dressing room, First Impressions, fume, fumes, haze, pipe, smoking room, tobacco
«Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
attempted, detection, fifth, love story, proposition, romanticism, tinge, tinged, unemotional
«Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.»
«When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Bicycles
«You see, but you do not observe»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Mankind
« . . . the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
smallness
«Where there is no imagination there is no horror»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
horror