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...

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...

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down...

To a great mind, nothing is little,’ remarked Holmes, sententiously.

What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place – that was loneliness.

You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.

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.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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...

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know...

One night–it was on the twentieth of March, 1888–I was returning from a journey to a patient(for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed...

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 undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller’s box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or...

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Holmes laughed. “Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life,” said he. “Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance. Surely our profession, Mr. Mac,...

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.

Il Destino però è un essere capriccioso e beffardo, e un anno dopo avvenne quella che sui libri di storia venne in seguito riportata come la Grande Mutazione. A oggi gli scienziati non sono in...

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Oh how I’ve missed you, Holmes.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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.

Wonderful!” I ejaculated.

Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.

But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson…Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain,...

Dr. Watson’s summary list of Sherlock Holmes’s strengths and weaknesses:”1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium,...

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract...

You know my methods. Apply them.

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...

There’s a lot of Sherlock love in here. In many ways, this book might as well be called ‘Deduce THIS, Sexlock Holmes!’ with a picture of me licking his meerschaum, cross-eyed and screaming.

No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.

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.

My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense...

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

My friend’s wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair.”You’re not hurt, Watson? For God’s sake say that you’re not hurt!”It was worth a wound -it was worth many wounds-...

How long is this to last?” asked the inspector finally. “And what is it we are watching for?””I have no more notion than you how long it is to last,” Holmes answered with some asperity....

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

Smisi di respirare. Smisi di pensare. Probabilmente smisi di fare qualunque cosa; per un lungo momento smisi di vivere.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we’re all deductive geniuses.

I really don’t know what to think, Mr Holmes,’ Lestrade muttered. ‘Well, that’s nothing new.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large...

I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.

Y jamás se mostraba tan formidable como después de pasar días enteros en su sillón, sumido en sus improvisaciones y en sus libros antiguos.

Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l’ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso.

Erano morbide e piene, le labbra di James. Sapevano di un che di dolciastro, che ben si sposava con il sapore salato delle labbra di Sebastian, rese tali dalle lacrime che non aveva saputo trattenere...