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The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "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." And he stretched his long white hand up for
it. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has not got
over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra
strain upon it."
He smiled at my vehemence. "Perhaps you are right, Watson," he
said. "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find
it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the
mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as an intermediary, so that Holmes's thoughts might be forever kept just out of reach. If you told stories from Holmes's perspective, everyone would know what the bleeding genius was thinking the whole time. They'd have the culprit fingered on page one. ~ Graham Moore
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Graham Moore
Do you remember," he said, "one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor old Watson had been up and down them a thousand times, but he had never thought of counting them, whereas Holmes had counted them as a matter of course, and knew that there were seventeen. And that was supposed to be the difference between observation and non-observation. Watson was crushed again, and Holmes appeared to him more amazing than ever. Now, it always seemed to me that in that matter Holmes was the ass, and Watson the sensible person. What on earth is the point of keeping in your head an unnecessary fact like that? If you really want to know at any time the number of steps to your lodging, you can ring up your landlady and ask her. ~ A.A. Milne
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by A.A. Milne
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.'
That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked.
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The smell nearly distracted me from my task, but no-I remained steadfast. Stiff upper lip, Watson! Action! Answers!

THEN bacon. ~ G.S. Denning
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by G.S. Denning
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sure there are times when one cries with acidity,
'Where are the limits of human stupidity?'
Here is a critic who says as a platitude
That I am guilty because 'in gratitude
Sherlock, the sleuth-hound, with motives ulterior,
Sneers at Poe's Dupin as "very inferior".'
Have you not learned, my esteemed communicator,
That the created is not the creator?
As the creator I've praised to satiety
Poe's Monsieur Dupin, his skill and variety,
And have admitted that in my detective work
I owe to my model a deal of selective work.
But is it not on the verge of inanity
To put down to me my creation's crude vanity?
He, the created, would scoff and would sneer,
Where I, the creator, would bow and revere.
So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle:
The doll and its maker are never identical. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

~ Sherlock Holmes ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
As it happens" said my uncle," I intended to make an appearance at the met today anyway. Inspector Lestrade has been bumbling through another investigation, and I decided it would be best to offer my assistance before he travels too far down an incorrect deductive path- and note that I use the term deductive liberally. I don`t belive Lestrade could deduce in which direction a horse crossed the street even if he came upon a pile of its dung!"
Sherlock Holmes, The Chess queen enigma ~ Colleen Gleason
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Colleen Gleason
It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways. ~ Jude Law
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Jude Law
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. ~ Douglas Adams
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Douglas Adams
Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or 21st time and sometimes I watched Jeremy Brett's marvellous grotesque Sherlock Holmes or of course Seven Samurai. I sometimes went out for Tennessee Fried Chicken.
Day followed day. A year went by. ~ Helen DeWitt
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Helen DeWitt
What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that. ~ John Sandford
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by John Sandford
A mistake would have been fatal."
-Sherlock Holmes- ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath which ran the words, "With the Respects of Scotland Yard, November 1888."
Sherlock Holmes sat with his lips parted, but no sound emerged.
"Thank you," he managed at length. ~ Lyndsay Faye
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Lyndsay Faye
Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation
sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mycroft Holmes: ... a necessary evil, not a dragon for you to slay.
Sherlock Holmes: A dragon slayer? Is that what you think of me?
Mycroft: No ... It's what you think of yourself.
Mrs. Holmes/Mum: Are you two smoking?
Mycroft: No-
Sherlock: It was Mycroft!
(They hide their lighted cigarettes behind their backs.) -Sherlock, "His Last Vow", season/series 3 ~ Steven Moffat
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Steven Moffat
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes. ~ Brittany Cavallaro
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Brittany Cavallaro
You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to read the body language that people's homes present. ~ Jarod Kintz
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Jarod Kintz
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248) ~ Rebecca Goldstein
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Rebecca Goldstein
My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. ~ Anonymous
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Anonymous
And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese. ~ David Baldacci
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by David Baldacci
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways. ~ Henning Mankell
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Henning Mankell
I have taken to living by my wits. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street;
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five. ~ Vincent Starrett
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Vincent Starrett
It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement. ~ Steven Moffat
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Steven Moffat
I'm living in a world of goldfish. ~ Mycroft Holmes
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Mycroft Holmes
It's quite exciting, said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
If you're so bored, learn to knit. I'm not that good of a hobby."
"If I ever learn to knit, the first thing I'll make is a noose to hang myself with. ~ Eva Morgan
Sherlock Holmes Watson quotes by Eva Morgan
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