Arthur Conan Doyle - Holmes Quotes

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You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

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To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman.

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Ross: Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Ross: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,

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"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried.
"Elementary," said he [Holmes].

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Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

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