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Arthur Conan Doyle15 quotes

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893 How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 All 15 quotes →

Raymond Chandler5 quotes

Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. — Raymond Chandler · 1953 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler · 1939 A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. — Raymond Chandler · 1949 It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. — Raymond Chandler · 1940 Law is where you buy it in this town. — Raymond Chandler · 1940

Dashiell Hammett3 quotes

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930 He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930 That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930

Douglas Adams3 quotes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams · 1988 It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988 It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. — Douglas Adams · 1987

Agatha Christie2 quotes

With method and logic one can accomplish anything! — Agatha Christie · 1924 It is completely unimportant... That is why it is so interesting. — Agatha Christie · 1926