It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matte...
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
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.
He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brai...
Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot.
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble....
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that wind...
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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.
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear,...
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck...
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.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson