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...
He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clearFootprints?A man's or a woman's?Dr. Mortimer looked s...
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)—We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none...
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
I am an Irishman, sir. Irish Irish? Yes, sir.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced. Just make a few alterations in that report...
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
For in days when books were few and readers scarce, a long memory and a ready tongue were of the more value;
You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: 'What you say is natural, but if you had s...
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.~ Sherlock Holmes
As they formed into ranks, each man dropping silently into his place, Sir Nigel ran a questioning eye over them, and a smile of pleasure played over his face. Tall and sinewy, and brown, clear-eyed, h...
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to id...