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Logic2 quotes
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 · 1890With method and logic one can accomplish anything! — Agatha Christie · 1924Adaptability1 quote
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 · 1930Airports1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Alcohol1 quote
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 · 1953Alcoholism1 quote
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 · 1953Animals1 quote
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 · 1987Appearance vs. reality1 quote
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Architecture1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Australia1 quote
We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1911Beautiful women1 quote
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. — Raymond Chandler · 1940Beauty of nature1 quote
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 · 1893Blondes1 quote
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. — Raymond Chandler · 1940British Empire1 quote
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Cities1 quote
A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. — Raymond Chandler · 1949Clues1 quote
It is completely unimportant... That is why it is so interesting. — Agatha Christie · 1926Cocaine1 quote
It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890Confoundment1 quote
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Corruption1 quote
Law is where you buy it in this town. — Raymond Chandler · 1940Depression1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Details1 quote
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891Down days1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Drinking1 quote
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 · 1953Drugs1 quote
It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890Evidence1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Facts1 quote
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Flowers1 quote
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 · 1893Good luck1 quote
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams · 1988Heliocentrism1 quote
What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Horses1 quote
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 · 1987Inflection points1 quote
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett · 1930