“Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“... can I have the heart to fluster the flustered Thipps further—that's very difficult to say quickly—by appearing in a top-hat and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There it was, a sign above a shop that said 221B BAKER STREET. My mouth hung open. I looked around at the… — James R. Benn Copy Share Image
“My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. "You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“She leaned back, closing her eyes and blowing out a thin wisp of smoke. “He was always a good-looking man. Your eyes… — Angela Misri Copy Share Image
“One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient(for I had now returned to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fifty years before Sherlock Holmes first appeared, the Bow Street Runner had used the Sherlockian method of careful observation of trifles. The… — E.J. Wagner Copy Share Image
“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
