Quotes About Holmes

We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.

That is very helpful, Mr. Holmes.

There is an appalling directness about your questions, Watson, said Holmes, shaking his pipe at me. They come at me like bullets.

was half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. 'There is no great mystery in this matter,' he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for

I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair

which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and

That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?

Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes.

Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened. I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I shall be back in an hour or two, I remarked.

I think I have known how to frame the letter," said Sherlock Holmes.

said Sherlock Holmes, turning upon his heel. 'I hope before very long to be able to introduce you to the pair of them. A word with you, Watson.' He led me out to the head of the stair.

You mean the retired sergeant of Marines," said Sherlock Holmes.

man was murdered, how was it done? asked the former. Poison, said Sherlock Holmes curtly, and strode off. One other thing, Lestrade, he added, turning round at the door: 'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel. With which

Speaking professionally, it was admirably done. -John H. Watson- -The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.

Count Sylvius, We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself. Not far from him, at any rate, Holmes answered witha polite smile.

Holmes rose from his chair. I am a rather busy man, Mr. Gibson, said he, and I have no time or taste for aimless conversations. I wish you good-morning.

Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out, he said.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.

My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.

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