Sherlock Quotes

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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.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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.

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

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

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

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.

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

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

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.

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

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

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

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.

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

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

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

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

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.

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

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

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

It was quite elementary, ' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

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.

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