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

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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.

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

So unworldly was he–or so capricious–that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to...

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.

Sherlock Holmes, “İmkansız olanı elerseniz,elimizde kalan ne kadar mümkün görünmese de doğrudur,” derdi.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to...

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

You know,’ I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes’ heart before, ‘that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.

Better and better. Your grandmother’s looks and your grandfather’s brains. A deadly combination, I must say.

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

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing,” mused the Inspector, “Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times… What do you think of this,...

Excellent!” I cried. “Elementary,” said he.

…Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe–“”Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?” Asked Holmes, with some asperity.”To the man of precised, scientific...

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.

You’re probably right,” agreed Mr Umezaki, smiling while his fingertips reached out for an oncoming phallus.

Well, it is generally considered— though not always true— that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event...

It’s a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this.”I thought he was joking, for the view...

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’‘Not in the...

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...

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Mrs Bennet was a great connoissuer of feminine beauty and indeed it must be owned that she herself was a very handsome woman. As to the sweetness of her temper, there was less compelling evidence;...

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world’s beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough? [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d’être.]

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

You’re too late. She’s my wife.””No, she’s your widow.”His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley’s waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his...

Elementary,” said my professor with a grin.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Watson,’ said he, ‘if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear,...

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.” ~ Sherlock Holmes

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

I have taken to living by my wits.

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn’t look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as...

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted...

. . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over...

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and...

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.