I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a...

noi”.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]Oh, no. Absolutely not… The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to...

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,...

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

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.

It was quite elementary,’ returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

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...

Fool. He’s as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm’s way for the sake of the Great Detective.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,’ Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

It is cocaine,” he said, “a seven-per-cent solution. Would youcare to try it?””No, indeed,” I answered brusquely. “My constitution has not gotover the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extrastrain upon it.”He...

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...

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...

Are you prepared to be the complete Watson?” he asked.”Watson?””Do-you-follow-me-Watson; that one. Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you,...

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

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...

Do you remember,” he said, “one of Holmes’s little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor old Watson had been up and down them a thousand times,...

I’m not a psychopath, I’m a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no...

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him...

Here dwell together still two men of note/ Who never lived and so can never die:/ How very near they seem, yet how remote/ That age before the world went all awry./ But still the...

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

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.

It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As...

Oh how I’ve missed you, Holmes.

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...

You’re not hurt, Watson? For God’s sake, say that you are not hurt!”It was worth a wound — it was worth many wounds — to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind...

Patrick Watson makes my soul crawl out of it’s hiding place.