325 Quotes About Sherlock-holmes
- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
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- Author Graham Moore
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There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery
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- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
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- Author Lyndsay Faye
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As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the last seven days. For the first time since I had known him, Sherlock Holmes appeared to be exhausted by work rather than inaction."Because if I am right," he murmured, "I haven't the first idea what to do.
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- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
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- Author Anthony Horowitz
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I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
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- Author Ken Ludwig
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Well, Watson.''Yes, Holmes?'I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!
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- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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