The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely s...
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ~ Sherlock Holmes
Excellent! I cried. Elementary, said he.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued...
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the...
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally...
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?[Sherlock Holmes on his .]
To a great mind, nothing is little.
My job is to know what other people do not know.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.