Holmes Quotes

Holmes Quote of the day

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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

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

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

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.

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 miserable ways of our fellowmen.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

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

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

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

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

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

Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes.

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.