Arthur Conan Doyle

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #suicide #the-veiled-lodger #life

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#thought-provoking #intelligence

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch

I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #music

It’s every man’s business to see justice done. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#justice #responsibility #business

better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#love

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#men

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interprete Nature ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#nature

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chaps #detective-novels #inspector-alec-mandonald #inspiration #business

Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#inspirational