When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The latter yawned and tossed the end of his cigarette into...

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s...

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

No ghosts need apply. – Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn’t want to be known?

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

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.

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest...

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

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...

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...

noi”.

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don’t.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H.” It was a nice...

My business is that of every other good citizen – to uphold the law.

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...

En la narrativa de género es necesario un narrador, testigo de la confusión, llámese Watson, Petrie o Axel, que crea que lo que sucede es real tan sólo porque su voz narra en tercera persona,...

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

As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the last seven days. For the first time since I had known him, Sherlock...

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.”[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson’s cooking.]

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful...

To begin at the beginning.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn’t need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as...

Purely platonic, I assure you.

I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility...

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.”That was the curious incident,’ remarked...

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Watson: “You may be right.”Holmes: “The probability lies in that direction.

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...

There’s sleep to be found here, and I’m going to find it—with my eyes closed. I’m like Sherlock Holmes meets Helen Keller. #Networking

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there,...

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is...

I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.

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...

Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just...

well, as often as I did, I suppose, though my reasons were infinitely better.

then he jumped..I owe him so much. I needed him. I still do.But he’s gone.He told me once that I shouldn’t make people into heroes. He said that heroes didn’t exist and that even if...

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn’t real. It’s real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if...

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

…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...

A strange enigma is man

On westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the black coats of the marching gentlefold and fuller than the moon...

How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by the pharyngeal glands of the worker bee –creating queens from ordinary...

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes