Sherlock Holmes

"London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the criminal classes began to take things seriously."

"It is my business to know things."

"I never remember faces. It is the second most useful thing in my profession."

"My poor fellow, you evidently believe that I have formed some extravagant theories upon insufficient data."

"What one man can invent another can discover."

"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."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson."

"You have seen me display deduction. How do you account for it?"

"I would not touch this case if I didn't have a professional interest in it."

"A woman always seems to me to be of much more subtle and more dangerous qualities."

"I make my small composures and study the curious little problems which the law and the customs of various nations present."

"You see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see."

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

"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem."

"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."

"The matter is no doubt a trivial one, but the manner of it strikes me as curious."

"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."

"My time value is by the hour."

"The facts are available to me. I need only to arrange them."

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

"I rely upon my judgment and my knowledge of London to aid me."

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

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

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

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

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

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work."

"I am the most long-suffering of mortals."

"Crime is common. Logic is rare."