Mr. Sherlock Holmes QuotesⅡ
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth?
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
It's for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence.
The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
That for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
I wanted to end the world but, I'll settle for ending yours.”
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” he answered, laughing.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
“As a rule,” said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.
It isyour commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile.
"It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."
Arthur Conan Doyle
“As a rule,” said Holmes,
“the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.”