“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.” — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“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
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.” — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“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
“I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases… — 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
“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
“day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study… — 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
“Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — 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.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
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