“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
“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
“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.” — 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 name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — 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
“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
“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
“Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ” — 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
“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
“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
“I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“You're too late. She's my wife." "No, she's your widow." His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such… — 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
“An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so… — 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
“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
“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her… — 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
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
“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be… — 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
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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