Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than… — 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
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — 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
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