It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.