Quotes

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.” Arthur Conan Doyle

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

“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.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

“As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“Always desire to learn something useful.” Sophocles

“A man growing old becomes a child again.” Sophocles

“Success is dependent on effort.” Sophocles

“Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.” Sophocles

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.” Sophocles

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” Sophocles

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” Sophocles

“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.” Sophocles

“Who seeks shall find.” Sophocles

“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” Sophocles

“A short saying often contains much wisdom.” Sophocles