69 result(s) for Sherlock Holmes Quotes.
"You know my methods, Watson."
"The game is afoot!"
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"You are right, Watson. It does seem to be a match."
"My mind 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."
"When you follow two separate chains of thought, Watson, you will find some point of intersection which should approximate to the truth."
"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem."
"When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."
"Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same."
"Let a man lay a train of gunpowder and touch a match to it, and a mere flash of flame would result; but I will show you the flash without the bang."
"It's quite a three pipe problem."
"There is nothing so important as trifles."
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
"When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty."
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare."
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather."
"Reputation is a good thing, Watson, but character is far more valuable."
"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done."
"The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work."
"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick."
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
"One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
"I consider that a man's brain is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know."
"There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you."
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay!"
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
"The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."
"Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any nation."
"You see, but you do not observe."
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
"To a great mind, nothing is little."
"The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."
"I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
"When you have a eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth."
"Emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."
"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"My mind 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."
"There is nothing like first-hand evidence."
"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."
"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
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