Arthur Conan Doyle

see also: The Sherlock Holmes series of his stories.

• "What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe that you have done."
  • A Study in Scarlet

• "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
  • A Case of Identity

• "There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."
  • A Case of Identity

• "The little things are infinitely more important."
  • A Case of Identity

• "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

• "What one man can invent another can discover."
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men

• "There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation."
  • The Valley of Fear

• "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
  • A Study in Scarlet