Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotations
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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