“ You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ 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 Arthur Conan Doyle
“ 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… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Mr Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand you have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, though I presume… Arthur Conan Doyle
