The Novels of Sherlock Holmes Quotes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." ~ The Boscombe Valley Mystery
"Should you care to add the case to your annals, my dear Watson," said Holmes that evening, "it can only be as an example of that temporary eclipse to which even the best-balanced mind may be exposed. Such slips are common to all mortals, and the greatest is he who can recognize and repair them." ~ The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
"There is one correspondent who is a sure draw, Watson. That is the bank. Single ladies must live, and their passbooks are compressed diaries." ~ The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. ~ The Valley of Fear
Our old chambers had been left unchanged through the supervision of Mycroft Holmes and the immediate care of Mrs. Hudson. As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place. There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn. The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack -- even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco -- all met my eyes as I glanced round me. ~ The Adventure of the Empty House
"When you follow two deparate chains of thought, Watson, you will find some point of intersection which should approximate to the truth." ~ The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
"Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese." ~ A Study in Scarlet
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." ~ The Adventure of the Speckled Band
"An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots." ~ The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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