# Quote — Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

> Three days of absolute fast does not improve one's beauty, Watson.

- Author: [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle.md)
- Book: [His Last Bow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow.md)
- Page: 941
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/three-days-of-absolute

## More from this book

> "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."
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> 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)