How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why...
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon t...
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a...
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull,...
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, , must be the truth?
Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes
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.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine o...
If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.