Sherlock Holmes

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

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

"The case has been an interesting one."

"I cannot afford to waste energy upon non-essentials."

"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"You see, but you do not observe."

"A man's character is revealed in times of trial."

"Trust must be earned, not given freely."

"The game itself is the reward."

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

"The moor is a dangerous place, Watson, and we must go carefully."

"Crime is common. Logic is rare."

"You have done well to come, and still better to come armed."

"The strongest man may be brought low by patience and cunning."

"The hound is but a tool in the hands of men."

"Greed is the root of all the evil in this affair."

"The truth is often stranger than fiction."

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

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

"You appear to have come up from the West."

"A man may see what he wishes to see."

"The game is afoot."

"I have preserved one amusement to myself in my serious life."

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

"The truth is ever strange and more wonderful than any fiction."

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

"A man is not a liar merely because he betrays a secret."

"One should always look for a possible alternative."

"I would suggest that you apply your mind to the facts."