Holmes Quotes · Page 3

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

— Anonymous

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him'…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“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

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

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

— Richard Kadrey

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

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not…

— Steven Moffat

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

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson…

— A. A. Gill

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

— Nicholas Meyer

I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that.…

— Michael Spinks

There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are…

— Bailee Madison

Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After…

— Larry Holmes

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my…

— Michael Spinks

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was…

— Cate Blanchett

It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened…

— Steven Moffat

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective…

— Patti Smith

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

— Jeremy Brett

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

— Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

— Rex Stout

Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the…

— Eoin Colfer