It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
Interpretation
This quote humorously addresses the discomfort of social obligations that can be tedious or force one to be dishonest.
Arthur Conan Doyle expresses in this quote a witty observation about social obligations that can feel intrusive and monotonous. It highlights the often uncomfortable choice between enduring dull interactions or feeling compelled to fabricate a more interesting persona, reflecting a common social dilemma that many can relate to.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the challenges of socializing at awkward gatherings.
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
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