“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
“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
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
“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 correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those… — 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
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I… — 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
“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
“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
“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 must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study… — 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
“A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great,… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. "I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is… — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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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