Sherlock Holmes

"Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay"

"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

"I have no desire to make mysteries, but we must face facts"

"The capacity of the human brain is limited"

"I am not romantic, but I confess to being rather fond of mysteries"

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data"

"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues"

"You have attempted to trifle with me, sir"

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use"

"You have done yourself no service in the way you have conducted yourself"

"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built"

"I have nothing to do today except to avoid boredom"

"There is as much sense in a statement as there is character in a face"

"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner"

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent"

"It may be that you are not yourself luminous but that you are a conductor of light"

"I think that I have deserved well of the community"

"The case has indeed been an interesting one"

"I am the most long-suffering of mortals"

"The truth is that there are a few men who are more to me than the generality of the world"

"I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous"

"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences from those facts"

"Crime is the spice of life"

"It is the obscure and the out of the way that is the most dangerous"

"You did not know that we were satisfied from the very first"

"I have no need of the nerves of such a man as you"

"The truth is quite obvious"

"I have very limited powers when a man is determined to be what he wants to be"

"You know my method, it is founded upon the observation of trifles"

"The facts are quite clear"