Holmes Deduction Quotes

#1. We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

Tim Wright

#2. True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

Joe Riggs

#3. It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

Anthony Horowitz

#4. I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies."
"You are right," said Holmes demurely: "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

Ray Kroc

#7. I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day ...

Thelonious Monk

#8. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Anthony Horowitz

#9. Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Anthony Horowitz

#10. For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

Michael Chabon

#11. The one, who does not have the 'poison' of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).

Dada Bhagwan

#12. You have a case, Holmes?" I remarked. "The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson," he answered. "It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.

Arthur Conan Doyle