Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female…

— Sophia McDougall

“My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to read the body language that people’s homes present.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Sherlock Holmes is a literary figment. He lives in Neverland, so he always gets to be right. But if he tried to ply his…

— Jonathan Gottschall

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he…

— Mark Gatiss

“My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

— Anthony Horowitz

“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just…

— Biz Stone

“A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in…

— Patti Smith