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“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Source: The Boscombe Valley Mystery

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Red Headed League

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Anything is better than stagnation.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Source: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories

“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet