Holmes Quotes

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You're talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can't see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, 'This woman's amazing.' I'm happy that I'm with her. She's amazing, and I'd think the same of her even if she wasn't with me - she's just amazing.

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

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.

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

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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

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

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

You know my methods. Apply them.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'