My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — 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
“In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine,… — 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
“[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some… — 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
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“One other thing, Lestrade,” he added, turning round at the door: “‘Rache,’ is the German for ‘revenge;’ so don't lose your time… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has… — 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
“Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. “The ideal reasoner,”… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — 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
“What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What do you wish to draw my attention to? To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The dog did… — 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
...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
“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
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“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
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
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