Holmes Quotes

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

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.

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

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

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome

Mr.Holmes is another sad work unfortunately.

The life of the law has not been logic

Men do not quit playing because they grow old

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

I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

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.