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Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same.- S. H. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.
— Richard Kadrey
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
— Chris Carter
I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.
— Anthony Horowitz
I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A three-pint problem
— Melvyn Small
I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']
— Richard Walter
You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
— Anthony Horowitz
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It's quite exciting, said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.
— Harper Lee
A strange enigma is man
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.
— Donnie Eichar
It is all in the way of professional experience.- Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems.
— J.R. Rim
It's elementary, my dear Winifred.
— Miss Mae
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
— Kinky Friedman
A mistake would have been fatal." -Sherlock Holmes- — Arthur Conan Doyle
Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.
— Emma Jane Holloway
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
— Natalie Dormer
What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To begin at the beginning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is seldom about the destination, Sherlock," smiled Irene. "It's about the journey.
— Melvyn Small
I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.
— Rachel Cohn
So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.
— Gillian Linscott
Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes- — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own, said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird.
— Colleen Gleason
Did you learn to drive - by playing Mario Kart - ""I've never put a Mario in a cart and I never will. — Eva Morgan
The universe is just like old Sherlock Holmes and hides all of its goodies in plain sight.
— Steve Merrick
I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] — Arthur Conan Doyle
In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
But not to our Muffin.
— Dorothy B. Hughes
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
— Jeffery Deaver
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences. Sherlock Holmes, The Problem of Thor Bridge
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
— Graham Moore
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have taken to living by my wits.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I was forced to agree.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.
— Jordan Sonnenblick
I consider a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.
— David Baldacci
Who are you, then?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes." "Good Lord!" "You have heard of me, I see.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The game is afoot.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
— Laurie R. King
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
— Laurie R. King
I think I have known how to frame the letter, said Sherlock Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about what the Ripper did to his victims.
— Bernard Schaffer
A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.
— Victor Kiam
A man needs an antidote to boredom. A man needs ambition.To do what? — Emma Jane Holloway
Mr. Sherlock Holmes ... was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-morrow' said he.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
You know my methods. Apply them.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let us remove God from the equation, shall we?
— Mitch Cullin
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
— Nicholas Meyer
