Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the British writer and physician who created the iconic character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, was born on May 22, 1859. The detective Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. On Arthur Conan Doyle's birth anniversary in 2025, honour the British writer with these famous Sherlock Holmes quotes and sayings as we celebrate his literary legacy.