Top 41 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.