The Novels of Sherlock Holmes Quotes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"You see, my dear Watson"--he propped his test-tube in the rack, and began to lecture with the air of a professor addressing his class--"it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect." ~ The Adventure of the Dancing Men
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." ~ A Study in Scarlet
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact." ~ A Study in Scarlet
"That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last." ~ The Adventure of the Red Circle
"From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty." ~ The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared." ~ His Last Bow
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." ~ Silver Blaze
"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Work is the best antidote to sorrow." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House
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