The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Book · 5 characters · 538 quotes · 1892

Quotes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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"I felt powerless and unhappy, sitting at home, even in the society of the best wife in the world."
Dr. John Watson Adventure
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"The matter was too serious for any hesitation on my part."
Dr. John Watson Courage
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"I am not quite so incoherent as you fancy, Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Friendship
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"You have shown considerable spirit in the matter."
Sherlock Holmes Courage
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"The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow."
Sherlock Holmes
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"My practice has extended recently to the Australian colonies."
Sherlock Holmes Work
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"The smallest point may be the most essential."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"What do you think of this little case which I have been sent down to investigate?"
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong."
Sherlock Holmes
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"A long series of sterile weeks occurred, in which I tasted only too well the truth of my observation."
Dr. John Watson Time
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"I think that you will find that you have overestimated my abilities."
Sherlock Holmes
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"You have brought detection as near an exact science as ever will be brought in this world."
Dr. John Watson
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."
Sherlock Holmes Science
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"The remarkable thing about you, Watson, is that you have so little sense of deduction."
Sherlock Holmes Friendship
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"There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before."
Sherlock Holmes History
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"I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"What one man can invent another can discover."
Sherlock Holmes Imagination
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. I abhor a dull routine."
Sherlock Holmes Creativity
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use."
Sherlock Holmes Education
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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The official detective may blunder upon the truth now and then, but all we other can reconstruct things mentally."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"You know my methods, Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"I am a creature of habit and of method."
Sherlock Holmes Perseverance
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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
Sherlock Holmes
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"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"My dear fellow, you have done wonders in a short time."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes Science