Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Sherlock Holmes Quote of the day

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 stimulating it.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

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 ill.

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

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

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

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

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

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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

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

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

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

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

No ghosts need

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

I must apologize for calling so late, " said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

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 else will come.

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

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

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

I Am Not Sherlock, But I Will Share Happiness With You And Lock you In My Heart For The Rest Of My Life.

Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

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.

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

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

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.