Sherlock Quotes (page 2)

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• road
• look
• street

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road. C. S. Lewis

• wine
• choices
• little

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

• old
• wishes
• friend

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.- Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle

• time
• study
• knowledge

there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before." Sherlock Holmes , A study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle

• lazy
• enough
• devil

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

• busy
• work
• wife

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. Arthur Conan Doyle

• work
• hi
• explained

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all." -Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

• experience
• professional
• professionally

It is all in the way of professional experience.- Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

• thinking
• being used
• brain

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. ... It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. -Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

• evening
• art
• love

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Arthur Conan Doyle

• marvel
• scenes
• least

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. Rex Stout

• god
• evening
• manly

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. Frederick Buechner