“Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.” — Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had anyone? And when I say "had", I'm being indelicate.” — Irene Adler Copy Share Image
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.” — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.1 —SHERLOCK HOLMES, IN SIGN OF THE FOUR” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
“How long is this to last?" asked the inspector finally. "And what is it we are watching for?" "I have no more… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree… — Benedict Cumberbatch 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 mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be… — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fifty years before Sherlock Holmes first appeared, the Bow Street Runner had used the Sherlockian method of careful observation of trifles. The… — E.J. Wagner Copy Share Image
“My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. "You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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