Holmes Quotes · Page 8

[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You're talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can't see in…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every…

— Maureen Johnson

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

— Kinky Friedman

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or…

— Jasper Fforde

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Ive had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of…

— Joshua Jackson

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

— Margaret Atwood

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why…

— Anthony Horowitz

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

— Catherine Jinks

The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches…

— Signe Baumane

But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,…

— Paul Douglas

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

— George Bernard Shaw

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no…

— Erik Larson

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

— Bonnie Greer

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

— Laurie R. King

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle