Famous quotes containing the words conan doyle, conan, doyle and/or published:
“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.... I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
That was the curious incident.”
—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)
“I never guess. It is a shocking habitdestructive to the logical faculty.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)