“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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“If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.”
Source: Lover Unbound

Letter (16 September 1919), quoted in Eberhard Jäckel, Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power (Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 48
1910s

“I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.”
Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence

Source: What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), p. 111

“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”
As related at Playing Holmes http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/sherlock-holmes/features/playing-holmes-in-progress