# His Last Bow - Author: [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle.md) - Quotes: 25 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow ## Quotes > "Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." > > It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets. p. 925 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/am-dining-at-goldinis.md) > Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. p. 980 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/good-old-watson.md) > Some fumes which are not poisonous would be a welcome change. p. 970 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/some-fumes-which.md) > I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry. p. 965 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-owe-you.md) > But I have reasons to suppose that this opinion would be very much more frank and valuable if he imagines that we are alone. p. 938 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/but-i-have.md) > I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glass of water. But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome. p. 940 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-give-you.md) > "I followed you.""I saw no one.""That is what you may expect to see when I follow you." p. 967 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-followed-you-i.md) > We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. p. 926 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/we-must-fall.md) > I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate. We will pass that. p. 967 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-have-heard.md) > There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible. p. 888 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/there-is-but.md) > Surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowing what I know, I have sent for you and not for the police. p. 967 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/surely-the-clearest.md) > To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. p. 960 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/to-let-the.md) > Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. p. 907 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/education-never-ends.md) > It is not for me, my dear Watson, to stand in the way of the official police force. p. 965 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/it-is-not.md) > We are devil-ridden, Mr. Holmes! My poor parish is devil-ridden! Satan himself is loose in it! We are given over into his hands! p. 963 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/we-are-devil-ridden.md) > I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned. p. 960 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-think-watson.md) > "Think of Mycroft's note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news. We are bound to go." > > My answer was to rise from the table. > > "You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go." p. 926 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/think-of-mycrofts.md) > I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me. Yet we must exhaust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this. p. 958 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/i-fear-that.md) > Holmes, you are not yourself. A sick man is but a child. p. 933 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/holmes-you-are.md) > Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. p. 936 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/indeed-i-cannot.md) > You fidget me beyond endurance. You, a doctor — you are enough to drive a patient into an asylum. p. 935 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/you-fidget-me-beyond.md) > You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible! p. 936 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/you-and-i-watson.md) > Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph. p. 941 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/malingering-is-a-subject.md) > There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear. p. 896 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/there-is-no-part.md) > Three days of absolute fast does not improve one's beauty, Watson. p. 941 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/three-days-of-absolute.md)