The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Book · 5 characters · 538 quotes · 1892

Quotes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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"What of the rat?"
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
Sherlock Holmes Solitude
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"I can discover facts, Watson, but I cannot change them."
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"You are yourself luminous in the darkness."
Sherlock Holmes Hope
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Ah, the typical lawyer to whom the unusual is abhorrent."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"How the world changes, and yet how little we change with it."
Sherlock Holmes Change
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"London has the most singular and sinful record of any city in the world."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I never remember faces, but I never forget a case."
Sherlock Holmes
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"You may have observed that in this notebook I jot down these singular cases."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"It is my business to know things."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers."
Sherlock Holmes Faith
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"The matter is so delicate that I think in the first instance I should beg for a short interview with Colonel Emsworth, and only in the event of his refusal would I apply to a full investigation."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I am lost without my Boswell."
Sherlock Holmes Relationships
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"It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"You have certainly destroyed my reputation, whatever the opposite may have done for you."
Sherlock Holmes Life
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"I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so kind as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities."
Sherlock Holmes Kindness
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"Singular! That is indeed singular."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I see no data yet."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"The impossible once eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive to the logical faculty."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"The most interesting crimes are often found within the bosom of families."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"I have trained myself to notice what others overlook."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"The game is afoot."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"I have nothing to do to-day; therefore the game is afoot."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"Elementary, my dear fellow."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"My dear Watson, you as a medical man are aware of the different nervous temperaments."
Sherlock Holmes Science
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"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Ah, I am glad to stretch myself, Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure