Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business 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.
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...
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.
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...
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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.
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.
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 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.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, , must be the truth?
Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms
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
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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.