Quotes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. —The Sign of Four

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know. —"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. —"The Stock-Broker's Clerk"

You see, but you do not observe. —"Scandal in Bohemia"

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement. —A Study in Scarlet

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. —A Study in Scarlet

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. —The Valley of Fear

about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My contention is that Sherlock Holmes is literature on a humble but not ignoble level, whereas mystery writers most in vogue are not. —Edmund Wilson, Classics and Commercials

Conan Doyle, a few words on the subject of. Don't you find as you age in the wood, as we are both doing, that the tragedy of life is that your early heroes lose their glamour?. . . . Now, with Doyle I don't have this feeling. I still revere his work as much as ever. I used to think it swell, and I still think it swell. — P. G. Wodehouse, Performing Flea

Sources for Quotations

I use various sources for quotations on this site. Below are the most common sources I use. I also draw from my own collection of quotes and from primary sources.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition. John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan, editors. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1992.

BrainyQuote. <http://www.brainyquote.com/>

The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation. Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle, editors. Dorset Press, New York, 1978

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, fourth edition. Angela Partington, editor. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1992

Peter's Quotations by Laurence J. Peter. Bantam Books, New York, 1980

The Quotations Page. <http://www.quotationspage.com/>