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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#music #sherlock-holmes #violin #music

Competition is the death of art.


Dana Gould


#competition #death #keep-it-crispy #pete-holmes #weird

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#business

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


#humour #sherlock-holmes-watson #business

More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. "The door was open," he said incongruously. "I was passing by, and the door was open." "Holmes," I whispered in horror. "The door was open," he said once more, and then buried his face in his hands.


Lyndsay Faye


#horror #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #death

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#education

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#broadsheet #journalism #newspaper #sherlock-holmes #the-times

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#details #detection #facts #importance #sherlock-holmes

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


#london #morning #nature #petty-ambitions #sherlock-holmes

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]


Arthur Conan Doyle


#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch






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