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. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). Uncollected stories, Harvill Secker
More Author Quotes
- Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyl … ▶
- We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
- There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Si … ▶
- Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). The Sign of the Four, p.81, Arthur Conan Doyle
- I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. ✨ His Last Bow (1917) Devil's Foot
Most Cited Authors
William Shakespeare2362
Cassandra Clare2086
Ralph Waldo Emerson2017
Paulo Coelho1839
Rajneesh1644
Sherrilyn Kenyon1633
Mark Twain1626
C. S. Lewis1624
Rick Riordan1549
Oscar Wilde1401
Albert Einstein1372
J. K. Rowling1274
Rumi1268
Friedrich Nietzsche1258
John Green1254
Swami Vivekananda1206
Thomas Jefferson1179
Richelle Mead1130
Barack Obama1115
Henry David Thoreau1086
Terry Pratchett1070
Stephen King1024
Mahatma Gandhi1019
Jodi Picoult1016
Neil Gaiman977
Haruki Murakami976
Laozi972
27
The Best Quotes
Manolo Blahnik 
Don Rickles 
Leonard Cohen 
William Peter Blatty 
Andy Samberg 
John Stuart Mill 
Vincent Van Gogh 
David Petraeus 
Edith Wharton 
Amanda Bynes 
Nicole Appleton 
Joel Kinnaman 
A. E. Housman 
W. E. B. Du Bois 
Chuck Palahniuk Most Liked Authors
- William Shakespeare46.4k
- Cassandra Clare40.9k
- Ralph Waldo Emerson38.9k
- Paulo Coelho35.9k
- Rajneesh32k
- Sherrilyn Kenyon31.8k
- Mark Twain31.7k
- C. S. Lewis31k
- Rick Riordan30.4k
- Oscar Wilde26.9k
- Albert Einstein26.8k
- J. K. Rowling24.6k
- John Green24.5k
- Friedrich Nietzsche24.4k
- Rumi24.3k
- Swami Vivekananda23.3k
- Thomas Jefferson22.7k
- Richelle Mead22.2k
- Barack Obama21.6k
- Terry Pratchett21k
- Henry David Thoreau20.6k
- Stephen King19.8k
- Jodi Picoult19.8k
- Mahatma Gandhi19.7k
- Neil Gaiman19.2k
- Laozi19.1k
- Haruki Murakami19k
27