Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion." ~ The Greek Interpreter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." ~ The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "American slang is very expressive sometimes." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so." ~ The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle One night—it was in June, '89—there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clock. ~ The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all." ~ The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle