Quotes from book

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”

“Anything is better than stagnation.”

“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

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

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

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“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.”

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”