Mr. Sherlock Holmes QuotesⅢ
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
“If I could be assured of your destruction, I would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.”
“I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man.
At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot.”
The future was our fate. The present was our own.
“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.
"No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."
your presence may be of assistance to me.
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.
If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
“No possible question about the bona fides this time,”
said he, in answer, perhaps, to some little gleam of amusement in my eyes.
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
"From a drop of water," said the writer, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
So all life is a great chain,
Arthur Conan Doyle