Detectives Quotes

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature:...

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he i...

I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think...

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's atten...

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lo...

[The thief-taker] was conspicuous by his age, I should estimate he is in his middle fifties, and by ...

I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking alo...