There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it.Sherlock Holmes
You know a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick, and if I show you too much my own cleverness, I shall be left with no one to scare.Sherlock Holmes
I have always held, too, that pistol practice should distinctly be an open air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-puffs, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.Dr. John Watson
There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.Sherlock Holmes
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 chose.Sherlock Holmes
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.Sherlock Holmes
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.Sherlock Holmes
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.Sherlock Holmes
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.Sherlock Holmes
The little things are infinitely the most important.Sherlock Holmes