Quotes from book

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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

“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”

“Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (…)”

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

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

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

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

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

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

“Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.”

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

~ The Poison Belt”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”