“No man ever crossed me and was the better for it." "So many have said so, and yet here I am," said… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. — 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
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — 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
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
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes — 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
“Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself." "Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes… — 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
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
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“No mention of that local hunt, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous smile, "but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“WATSON: Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation. HOLMES: if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — 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
“It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he… — 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
“If I remember rightly, you on one occasion defined my limits in a very precise fashion." "Yes," [Watson] answered, laughing. "It was… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“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
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and… — 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
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for — 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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