It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.Sherlock Holmes
Baynes had kept in close touch with the various foreigners who were under observation.Narrator
I have some recollection, Watson, that you go armed upon these excursions of ours.Sherlock Holmes
Lestrade and I sat silent for awhile, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play.Dr. John Watson
He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him.Narrator
Doctor, you are a man of nerve. I have an ugly business to propose to you, and we may find ourselves in rough places before we are done.Sherlock Holmes
When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.Sherlock Holmes
There is Mr. Mason of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre of Montpellier, and Samson of New Orleans. I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mercury with the Western Morning News.Sherlock Holmes
There are points in connection with it which are not, entirely, satisfactory to my mind, but all the evidence points in the one directionSherlock Holmes
There is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop next to our inn. Into this I rushed, engaged a bicycle, and was able to get started before the carriage was quite out of sight.Dr. John Watson
Ah, by the way, yes, there is just one word I should like to say to you about the newspaper account you have written. It just needs a little filling in, that’s all.Sherlock Holmes