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“You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Red Headed League

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“To Sherlock Holmes she is alwayswoman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

Arthur Conan Doyle A Scandal in Bohemia

Source: A Scandal in Bohemia

“I am lost without my Boswell.”

Arthur Conan Doyle A Scandal in Bohemia

Source: A Scandal in Bohemia

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

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