The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Book · 5 characters · 538 quotes · 1892

Quotes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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"My dear Watson, you have done yourself no injustice in the matter."
Sherlock Holmes Kindness
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"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoes."
Sherlock Holmes Life
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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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"I have nothing to do today except to avoid ennui."
Sherlock Holmes Life
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"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Exactly what I expected"
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I have amused myself by marking out the history of every fresh advance which you have made"
Sherlock Holmes
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"A man may have his private convictions and yet know the game is up"
Sherlock Holmes Philosophy
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"The facts are quite clear"
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"Now that the matter has been so happily resolved, I do not see why I should be withheld from publication"
Dr. John Watson Literature
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"You know my method, it is founded upon the observation of trifles"
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"I have very limited powers when a man is determined to be what he wants to be"
Sherlock Holmes Freedom
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"The truth is quite obvious"
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"I have no need of the nerves of such a man as you"
Sherlock Holmes Strength
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"You did not know that we were satisfied from the very first"
Sherlock Holmes
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"It is the obscure and the out of the way that is the most dangerous"
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Crime is the spice of life"
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"I found Watson in his old sitting-room which he has hardly ever quitted"
Dr. John Watson Solitude
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"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences from those facts"
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"The world is not yet sufficiently advanced to see the wisdom of such actions"
Dr. John Watson Time
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"I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous"
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Some of my most successful cases have come through my fellow lodger"
Dr. John Watson Friendship
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"The truth is that there are a few men who are more to me than the generality of the world"
Sherlock Holmes Friendship
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"I am the most long-suffering of mortals"
Sherlock Holmes Patience
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"Evil comes not from without but from within ourselves"
Dr. John Watson Philosophy
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"You have extraordinary genius and powers of observation"
Dr. John Watson
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"The case has indeed been an interesting one"
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"I think that I have deserved well of the community"
Sherlock Holmes Success
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"The strange thing about the enterprise is that it was so innocent at the beginning"
Dr. John Watson Change