Sherlock Holmes

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"

"I have the greatest possible respect for your judgment"

"It is murder, but who the murderer is a different matter"

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the obvious"

"I am a man of science"

"One should always look for a possible alternative"

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link"

"You are my go-to man in a tight place"

"Consider the facts with freshness of vision"

"The smallest thing may prove the key to the greatest mystery"

"The impossible merely takes a little longer"

"Every problem has a solution if one looks deep enough"

"A guilty man will always betray himself"

"Nothing is too trivial when lives hang in the balance"

"The greatest pleasure is the thrill of the chase"

"One must never dismiss the obvious entirely"

"The investigation requires both logic and intuition"

"Patience is the virtue of the investigator"

"A mystery is merely a problem waiting for a solution"

"A man of science trusts only evidence"

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

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

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use."

"You see, but you do not observe."

"The facts seem to me to admit of only one explanation."

"In a modest way I have combated evil, but I have never set myself up as a judge of my fellow-creatures."

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

"Come what may, I am glad to have been of service."

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

"The world is full of commonplace occurrences."