Sherlock Holmes

"I have abjured all frivolous habits."

"The situation is indeed an extraordinary one."

"I have heard that you have had some very strenuous experiences."

"The case is quite a pretty little problem."

"There is nothing so deceptive as an obvious fact."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have data."

"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street."

"The faithful are the best servants of the law."

"One should always look at these things from the point of view of the criminal."

"I should recommend you to add strychnine to your evening meal."

"A little monograph upon the thousand-and-one little threads."

"I have my methods."

"The facts appear to be these."

"Some things rise above the common conventions of society."

"It is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine."

"The criminal code of the underworld."

"My dear Watson, you are the one fixed point in a changing age."

"Depend upon it, the devil is in the details."

"There is a certain method in this madness."

"I have examined myself narrowly and I find myself worthy."

"The case has been an interesting one, though elementary in its analysis."

"Great cases come to those who wait."

"A man's integrity is his fortune."

"Some secrets are best left buried."

"The truth will out, though mountains stand in the way."

"I am in the dark, Watson, and I do not like it."

"The hound itself is but a phantom, a creature of the guilty conscience."

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

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

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