The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Book · 5 characters · 538 quotes · 1892

Quotes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
Sherlock Holmes Life
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Friendship
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"It is my business to know what other people don't know."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I have nothing to do today. My mind rebels at stagnation."
Sherlock Holmes Work
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"The game is afoot."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"To a great mind, nothing is little."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"You see, but you do not observe."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Data, data, data! I cannot make bricks without clay."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"The game is afoot. I give myself a day or two to solve the problem."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"The cases which come to me are just a little too interesting to feel like hard work."
Sherlock Holmes Work
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"You may place considerable confidence in my assertion that it is quite out of the ordinary."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I cannot imagine why the company should desire to move me on when they have just engaged fresh operators."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The very fact that the case has been confided to me is remarkable."
Sherlock Holmes Leadership
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"I cannot find the slightest trace of evidence which could corroborate his story."
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity is the soul of detection."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The world is indeed full of queer things, and we who are fortunate enough to live in it get our share of the queerness."
Dr. John Watson Adventure
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"It is well to have it all in writing."
Dr. John Watson Wisdom
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"Has anything escaped me? I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?"
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give me of your own small experiences you have habitually underrated your own abilities."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The truth of the matter was just as I had deduced in every essential particular."
Dr. John Watson Truth
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"A man who at mid-day enters an alehouse, and who is soon seen in the company of a woman less virtuous than painted, might sometimes find reasons to regret his wife's high principles."
Sherlock Holmes Relationships
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"This case, however, presented some points of interest and some points on which I desired information."
Sherlock Holmes
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"It was a tangled skein, but as I gazed at it the separate threads began to come apart in my mind."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom