“ I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. It's a bonny thing, said he. Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are th… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.- Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with i… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...-Sherlock Holmes--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pip… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ When you have excluded the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.--Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudoIpse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri, the little girl continued. I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water an… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“ It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
