Jack the ripper Quote by Edward B. Hanna

“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

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy,…

— Henry James

“It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He watched the newly arrived commuters as they stepped into the carriage, pushed their way down the tube, the odours from their damp clothes…

— Amanda Sington-Williams

“As I've said before," she scoffed, "you're different." "How am I different?" his exasperation was clear. "Well, it seems you are my partner in…

— Sarah MacLean

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable…

— Anna Quindlen

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. A…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters…

— Peter Ackroyd

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“There it was, a sign above a shop that said 221B BAKER STREET. My mouth hung open. I looked around at the ordinary street…

— James R. Benn

“Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty, --G.…

— Mark Williams