Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
- Douglas Adams
I had to suppress a smile. Sherlock Holmes once remarked of his brother, Mycroft, that you were as unlikely to find him outside of the Diogenes Club as you were to meet a tramcar coming down a country lane. Like Mycroft, Father had his rails, and he ran on them. Except for church and the occasional short-tempered dash to the train to attend a stamp show, Father seldom, if ever, stuck his nose out-of-doors.
- Alan Bradley
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Frederick Buechner
I've often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don't. I'm sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days
- Jim Butcher
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.
- Eoin Colfer
I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.
- Steve Coogan
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
- Jeffery Deaver
Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or 21st time and sometimes I watched Jeremy Brett's marvellous grotesque Sherlock Holmes or of course Seven Samurai. I sometimes went out for Tennessee Fried Chicken.
Day followed day. A year went by.
- Helen Dewitt
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's quite exciting, said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not a psycopath, I'm a high-functioning socipath. Do your research.
-Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
---Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you wish to draw my attention to?
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Sherlock Holmes)
- Arthur Conan Doyle
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done
all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets
the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for
it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'
The dog did nothing in the night-time.'
That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.
- Jasper Fforde
let me put on my Sherlock Holmes deer-stalker hat and think why else a junkie might be shivering!
- Paul Grimsley
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.
- Mark Haddon
Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox.
'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter
- Dorothy L Sayers
You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to read the body language that people's homes present.
- Jarod Kintz
Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.
- Jarod Kintz
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.
- Laurie R King
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
- C S Lewis
And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.
- Jeff Lindsay
Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.
- Jeff Lindsay
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, You see, but you do not observe.
- Joe Navarro
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
- Jenny Nimmo
I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, till end of course.
- Diane Setterfield
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
- Diane Setterfield
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.
- Jordan Sonnenblick
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
- Rex Stout
- Douglas Adams
I had to suppress a smile. Sherlock Holmes once remarked of his brother, Mycroft, that you were as unlikely to find him outside of the Diogenes Club as you were to meet a tramcar coming down a country lane. Like Mycroft, Father had his rails, and he ran on them. Except for church and the occasional short-tempered dash to the train to attend a stamp show, Father seldom, if ever, stuck his nose out-of-doors.
- Alan Bradley
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Frederick Buechner
I've often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don't. I'm sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days
- Jim Butcher
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.
- Eoin Colfer
I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.
- Steve Coogan
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
- Jeffery Deaver
Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or 21st time and sometimes I watched Jeremy Brett's marvellous grotesque Sherlock Holmes or of course Seven Samurai. I sometimes went out for Tennessee Fried Chicken.
Day followed day. A year went by.
- Helen Dewitt
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's quite exciting, said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not a psycopath, I'm a high-functioning socipath. Do your research.
-Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
---Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you wish to draw my attention to?
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Sherlock Holmes)
- Arthur Conan Doyle
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done
all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets
the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for
it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'
The dog did nothing in the night-time.'
That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.
- Jasper Fforde
let me put on my Sherlock Holmes deer-stalker hat and think why else a junkie might be shivering!
- Paul Grimsley
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.
- Mark Haddon
Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox.
'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter
- Dorothy L Sayers
You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to read the body language that people's homes present.
- Jarod Kintz
Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.
- Jarod Kintz
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.
- Laurie R King
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
- C S Lewis
And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.
- Jeff Lindsay
Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.
- Jeff Lindsay
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, You see, but you do not observe.
- Joe Navarro
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
- Jenny Nimmo
I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, till end of course.
- Diane Setterfield
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
- Diane Setterfield
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.
- Jordan Sonnenblick
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
- Rex Stout
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