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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes

«Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.»
«Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!»
«Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: streams
«A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.»
«Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it? I knew it by his refusal to talk about some episodes in his American life. I knew it by certain precautions he took. I knew it by certain words he let fall. I knew it by the way he looked at unexpected strangers.»
«A long shot, Watson, a very long shot!»
«You know my methods, Watson.»
«A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: unit
«He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime.»
«All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.»