Quotes About Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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.

What was it Sherlock Holmes said about theories?" "'It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,'" I rattled off. And as I continued, Dad chimed in so we were reciting in unison. "'Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.'" Sherlockian

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,'" I quoted. "Which Holmes story is that from?" the chief asked. "I don't recognize the reference." "It's from Star Wars

Sherlock Holmes and that whole Holmes thing—that once you've eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth. What Holmes never admitted was that there is a vast universe of the possible, and sorting through all the possibilities is often impossible.

Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

Holmes gets like this when facing an interesting problem. Pay him no mind. He is not deliberately being rude." I could not forebear smiling a little. "When he is deliberately being rude you will know about it. You and everyone else in the general vicinity.

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.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Upon my word, Watson!" said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, "I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry." "You know," I answered with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.

Sherlock Holmes could put the tiniest clues together to find the truth. He was almost impossible to fool. So it might seem surprising that his creator, Sir Arthur, believed in fairies. But he did.

Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and motion, with which nature has provided young females in its blind desire to propagate the species.

Eu não compreendo o amor — disse Holmes com tristeza. — Nunca aleguei compreender.

That night Holmes awoke in a high fever and was delirious. As Freud and I sat by his bedside, each restraining the movement of his hands, he babbled of oysters overrunning the world and similar nonsense.* Freud listened with the greatest attention. "Is he fond of oysters?" he demanded of me during a quiet interval. I shrugged, too confused to answer accurately.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

W-what...is that?" Veronique followed his gaze. "The one I serve. That is my god. The god of pain and desire." Holmes

Holmes went in for a final attack, fully expecting it to be fended off, and when it was, he hooked Moriarty's arms around his and pulled backwards, letting gravity do the rest. There was a resigned look on the Professor's face as they fell, as if he'd been expecting this. Tumbling

Moriarty will have no option now but to move forward, because he knows what we have done, what we are capable of with those weapons – and he knows we are right on his heels. He will have no choice but to come out of hiding... To finally face Holmes once more!

At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.