44 Quotes About Holmes

There have,” said I, “been numerous petty thefts.”Holmes snorted his contempt.“This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that,” said he. “It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.

I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.

We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.

The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

If canines can be conditioned to salivate over nonexistent food, may not men one day be likewise taught to salivate at the prospect of nonexistent facts?