Sherlock Holmes

"The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow."

"You have shown considerable spirit in the matter."

"I am not quite so incoherent as you fancy, Watson."

"It was a tangled skein, but as I gazed at it the separate threads began to come apart in my mind."

"This case, however, presented some points of interest and some points on which I desired information."

"A man who at mid-day enters an alehouse, and who is soon seen in the company of a woman less virtuous than painted, might sometimes find reasons to regret his wife's high principles."

"I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give me of your own small experiences you have habitually underrated your own abilities."

"Has anything escaped me? I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?"

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity is the soul of detection."

"I cannot find the slightest trace of evidence which could corroborate his story."

"The very fact that the case has been confided to me is remarkable."

"I cannot imagine why the company should desire to move me on when they have just engaged fresh operators."

"You may place considerable confidence in my assertion that it is quite out of the ordinary."

"The cases which come to me are just a little too interesting to feel like hard work."

"The game is afoot. I give myself a day or two to solve the problem."

"Data, data, data! I cannot make bricks without clay."

"You see, but you do not observe."

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

"Crime is common. Logic is rare."

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."

"To a great mind, nothing is little."

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself."

"The game is afoot."

"I have nothing to do today. My mind rebels at stagnation."

"It is my business to know what other people don't know."

"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth."

"My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."

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

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