"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have...
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms
"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I fin...
"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.
"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a h...
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of ...
"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ...
"The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all...
"Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.
"You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
"Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the p...
"Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge ...
"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special fe...