Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes Quotations

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes