There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.Sherlock Holmes
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.Sherlock Holmes
When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet.Sherlock Holmes
What is the meaning of it, Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable.Sherlock Holmes
The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.Sherlock Holmes
There will be no more murders. You can put that consideration out of the question. You must deal with the facts.Sherlock Holmes
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.Sherlock Holmes
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.Sherlock Holmes
The situation was difficult enough before, but it is doubly so now.Sherlock Holmes
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.Sherlock Holmes