#holmes

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #holmes




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

I know you're an army doctor and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. I know you've got a brother who's worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him—possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife. And I know that your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? {he exits and pops back in.} The name's Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221b Baker Street. Afternoon.


Benedict Cumberbatch as BBCs Sherlock


#bbc #john-watson #sherlock #sherlock-holmes #home

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #imagination

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


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #suicide #the-veiled-lodger #life

Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.


Graham Moore


#conan #doyle #holmes #mystery #sherlock

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. ---Sherlock Holmes


Arthur Conan Doyle


#gifts