You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered...

No, Sherlock doesn’t need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?””For me,” said Sherlock Holmes, “there still remains the cocaine-bottle.” And...

John [to Sherlock]: You’re incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no...

‘Rache,’ is the German for ‘revenge;’ so don’t lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.” With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.

More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body.Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. “The door was open,”...

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire...

I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use...

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o’clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson...

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the...

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...

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer...

She wondered how Dr. Watson – a clever man in his own right – had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he remarked with a smile. “It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Not that Dr Watson wasn’t benign – he was one of the best souls in the Empire – but a man didn’t get to be her uncle’s right-hand man without a good uppercut and the...

I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

Sherlock: If the occasional pile of clutter offends you, by all means move it. John: Last time I tried that I was bitten by a large spider you appeared to be using as a bookmark.

…Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the...

Sherlock: You’re keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John.John: It’s not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I’m collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was...