Watson Quotes
100 quotes by 52 authors
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd…
— Ally Carter
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I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov…
— Daniel Keyes
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Now, Watson,†said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,†he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.†“Thank God for that! 
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was…
— Aldous Huxley
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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Watson Quotes
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