My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“was a bustling center of commerce and western influence in pre-modern China. Today it is the center of business in modern day… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of… — 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
“Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — 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 Image
...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 Image
“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 Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
