Famous quotes containing the words conan doyle, conan, doyle and/or published:
“No, no; the real name, said Holmes sweetly. It is always awkward doing business with an alias.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence, I remarked.
So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“Man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book, but time and like-minded men will find them. Plato had a secret doctrine, had he? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, They are published and not published.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)