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“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Final Problem and Other Stories

“By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

Because I looked for it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Dancing Men

Source: The Adventure of the Dancing Men

“The game is afoot.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Adventure of the Abbey Grange

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Man with the Twisted Lip

Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip

“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of Silver Blaze

Source: Silver Blaze

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,, must be the truth?”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Variant: When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Source: The Sign of Four

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Variant: There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes

Source: Sherlock Holmes