Best Sherlock Sayings
78 Sherlock quotes by 45 unique authors
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Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off…
— Eoin Colfer
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No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.
— Richard Kadrey
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play…
— Jim Butcher
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You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
— Jenny Nimmo
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Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to…
— Douglas Adams
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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to…
— Guy Adams
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But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment,…
— Vincent Starrett
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You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.
— Guy Adams
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[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best…
— Steven Moffat
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I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue…
— Biz Stone
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The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than…
— Laurie R. King
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The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew,…
— Rob Thomas
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I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.
— Catherine Jinks
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Date a girl who reads!!, brainy is the new sexy!, bigger books are better than bigger boobs!....oh shut the fuck up......date a person who makes…
— Ream
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Doing Sherlock Holmes I really got into my development as a martial artist and now coming into Iron Man 2 I really took it a…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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Some idiot hacking my phone in the middle of night to listen to my messages. Hey Sherlock! Nice try but please don't erase them anymore!
— Kris Jenner
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Believe me when I say it's a good thing to grab a mug of tea and curl up with a great Sherlock Holmes book.
— Jude Law
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Sherlock Holmes: She is a lovely woman, Watson, with a face that a man might die for. Dr. John Watson: A face a man might…
— Unknown Author
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