The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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...
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my na...
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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 at everything with reference to my own s...
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Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus...
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It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
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That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..."-Sherlock Holmes--The...
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius,...
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You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange ...
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I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither d...
