This book is an anthology of 174 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle and 70 selected by Blago Kirov facts about Arthur Conan Doyle.
Arthur Conan Doyle once said, “If in one hundred years I am known only as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes, and then I will have considered my life a failure.”
Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor of optometry, and started writing Sherlock Holmes because his practice was not doing well.
Sherlock Holmes is the most-filmed fictional character. Holmes has appeared in 226 films and been played by dozens of different actors since the advent of cinema in the late nineteenth century.
In the whole of his life Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a staggering 57 books.
Arthur Conan Doyle was friends with Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson was a fellow classmate at the University of Edinburgh.
Arthur Conan Doyle was athletic, like his character, Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle had a reputation among his friends as a talented joker.
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
“It is more than possible; it is probable.”
“Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
“Anything is better than stagnation.”
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
Arthur Conan Doyle once said, “If in one hundred years I am known only as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes, and then I will have considered my life a failure.”
Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor of optometry, and started writing Sherlock Holmes because his practice was not doing well.
Sherlock Holmes is the most-filmed fictional character. Holmes has appeared in 226 films and been played by dozens of different actors since the advent of cinema in the late nineteenth century.
In the whole of his life Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a staggering 57 books.
Arthur Conan Doyle was friends with Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson was a fellow classmate at the University of Edinburgh.
Arthur Conan Doyle was athletic, like his character, Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle had a reputation among his friends as a talented joker.
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
“It is more than possible; it is probable.”
“Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
“Anything is better than stagnation.”
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
