Sherlock Holmes

"You know my methods, Watson. They are neither difficult nor secret."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple, my dear Watson."

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

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is quite clear."

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

"The case has been an interesting one, though ultimately a simple one."

"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

"My dear fellow, you have done wonders in a short time."

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"I am a creature of habit and of method."

"You know my methods, Watson."

"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital."

"The official detective may blunder upon the truth now and then, but all we other can reconstruct things mentally."

"I never guess. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty."

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

"My mind rebels at stagnation. I abhor a dull routine."

"What one man can invent another can discover."

"I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection."

"There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before."

"The remarkable thing about you, Watson, is that you have so little sense of deduction."

"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum."

"Crime is common. Logic is rare."

"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."

"I think that you will find that you have overestimated my abilities."

"It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong."

"What do you think of this little case which I have been sent down to investigate?"

"The smallest point may be the most essential."

"My practice has extended recently to the Australian colonies."