Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

28-Aug-2026


United States


Writer

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 โ€“ 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste. See more bio in detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle

QUOTES BY Arthur Conan Doyle


โ€œWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.โ€

โ€œIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.โ€

โ€œThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.โ€

โ€œIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.โ€

โ€œYou see, but you do not observe.โ€

โ€œThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.โ€

โ€œIt is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.โ€

โ€œMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.โ€

โ€œYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.โ€

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