Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a collection of quotes from the famous detective.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Dogs don't make mistakes.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Sign of the Four
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
I have taken to living by my wits.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
I tell you, Mr. Holmes, this man collects women, and takes a pride in his collection, as some men collect moths or butterflies.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein'.Stephen Hawking
In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Valley of Fear
No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit,- destructive to the logical faculty.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Sign of the Four
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The "Gloria Scott"
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
That the dog should die was after the beautiful, faithful nature of dogs.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Red Headed League
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
To a great mind, nothing is little.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Five Orange Pips
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Work is the best antidote to sorrow.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
