Holmes Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Jarod Kintz

“And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.1 —SHERLOCK HOLMES, IN SIGN OF THE FOUR”

— Nat Greene

“I should like to take this opportunity to name you Sherlock and point out that there is no shit.”

— Kevin Hearne

“Is that true? Are you really him?” “I am afraid I still hold that distinction.” “You are Sherlock Holmes? No, I don’t believe it.”…

— Mitch Cullin

“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]”

— Rex Stout

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white,…

— 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