Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, th...
Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?''What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee...
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
I have taken to living by my wits.
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. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so...
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found inciden...
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotio...
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.