Sherlock Holmes Quotes

64 quotes by 39 authors

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of… — Frederick Buechner
A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud. — Victor Kiam
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. — A. A. Gill
I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a… — Steve Coogan
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his… — Joe Navarro
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. — Rex Stout
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. — Jeffery Deaver
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor… — Jeremy Brett
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight. — Jeremy Brett
To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope… — Jeremy Brett
Itâ€™s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - itâ€™s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and… — Steven Moffat
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. — Kinky Friedman
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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