Arthur Conan Doyle — "I have a lot of sympathy for criminals, but none for fools."
I have a lot of sympathy for criminals, but none for fools.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Arthur Conan Doyle
"The fairies are real, and I have seen them."
"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."
"Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell."
"Our minds are like a blank sheet of paper, to be filled in with facts."
"Heaven is to me as definite a world as Europe or the United States."
About Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Scottish physician and author whose Sherlock Holmes (created 1887) became the most-portrayed literary character in film and television history. Closely associated with G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown detective creator and Edwardian contemporary) and Wilkie Collins (earlier detective-fiction predecessor (The Moonstone)). For an intellectual contrast, see Harry Houdini, American escape artist and skeptic — Houdini publicly debunked the spiritualist mediums Doyle endorsed; Doyle insisted Houdini was secretly using real psychic powers. Their 1920s friendship-then-feud is the cleanest 'magician's debunking vs Sherlock-Holmes-author's credulity' irony in cultural history — the rationalist's creator believed the impossible.