Sherlock-holmes Quotes

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasu...

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastat...

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's re...

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlo...

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studi...

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people wit...

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking int...

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

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...

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

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people be...

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

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me ther...

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to l...

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gig...

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional ...

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the do...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

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.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

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

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of ...

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

No ghosts need

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c...

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely w...

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to ...

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--""Indeed, sir! May I inqu...

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bo...

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey,...

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunit...

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that...

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchw

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flower...

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other th...

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

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression us...

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to...

I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...

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

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though id...

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a ...

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse ...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say...