There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight. — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
“...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had someone? And when I say "had", I'm being indelicate.” — Irene Adler Copy Share Image
“When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)” — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“If you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.” — Joe Riggs Copy Share Image
“I really don’t know what to think, Mr Holmes,’ Lestrade muttered. ‘Well, that’s nothing new.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
“Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath… — Sophia McDougall Copy Share Image
“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“…the two chatting surreptitiously as a procession of priests, musicians, and locals dressed like demons paraded down the street: the men hoisting… — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
“Do you remember," he said, "one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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![“[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6cd/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_born_sherlock-holmes-has-to-understand-the-wo_2510929.jpg)
