Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes About Sarcasm

• The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Names

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

• Me parece que la inanidad y la credulidad de la raza humana no tienen límite. ¡Homo Sapiens! ¡Homo idioticus!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humor, Sarcasmo, Raza

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Ilustradas)", p.1779, Delphi Classics.

• I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nature, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Stark Munro Letters”, p.92, The Floating Press

• Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Eye, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.13, Zillmann Publishing

• The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Doctors

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.106, Fireship Press

• And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.174, My Ebook Publishing House

• ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Attitude, Humorous

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

• A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Horse, Humorous

  Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne (2011). “The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

• One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Athlete, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

• His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorry, Humorous, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

• Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Taken, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5605, Delphi Classics

• My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Uncles, Humorous, Successful

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6226, Delphi Classics

• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Marido, Mentira, Humor

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

• He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

• An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Advancement

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6180, Delphi Classics

• I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

• I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Reason

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.29, Zillmann Publishing

• Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Wells

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.301, Courier Dover Publications

• I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

• The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Past

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

• I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Age

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.612, Race Point Pub

• Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Doe

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford

• "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2017). “ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…”, p.5081, e-artnow

• Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Wings

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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