Sherlock Holmes

"The very first thing that I observed was a complete absence of any plausible motive."

"One must work with the tools which one has."

"I am the most inconstant of men, but at least I am not insensible to your loyalty."

"The greatest gift is knowledge itself."

"One should respect the proprieties in matters of detail."

"One must examine every thread to understand the fabric."

"I see in these scattered facts a pattern emerging."

"The solution lies not in what we see, but in what we fail to see."

"One must have method, system, order in one's life."

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

"You appear to be a man of some physical strength, Mr. Watson."

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

"There is nothing more to be said or done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow men."

"Fear nothing. I am here. But we have only tonight to lose, and then it will be my business to see that justice be done."

"A man should always have facts before him from which to draw his conclusions."

"Now, Watson, you do not propose to eat anymore?"

"The more public the crime the more mysterious it proves, as a rule."

"You have done well. You have kept your eyes open, and I have kept myself informed."

"I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go, and that you must return alone."

"Pray be precise as to details."

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

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

"I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I dare say, so spectacularly sinister as this one."

"You have heard something of the house, of course?"

"The truth is that I am tired of the course of events in London."

"Let me see what fresh particulars have come to light."

"You have indeed done wonders upon the moor, Watson."

"Action is a method of obtaining knowledge."

"I have my reputation to think of."

"One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it."