Sherlock Holmes And John Watson Quotes

#1. We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.

Brittany Cavallaro

#2. But not to our Muffin.

Dorothy B. Hughes

#3. Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."
-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

Guy Adams

#5. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.

Anthony Horowitz

#7. What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by John H. Watson, M.D., "The Adventure of the Yellow Face

Emma Jane Holloway

#9. Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

Emma Jane Holloway

#10. My love flew over the boundary of time
with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme.

Debasish Mridha

#11. One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. Sherlock: If the occasional pile of clutter offends you, by all means move it.
John: Last time I tried that I was bitten by a large spider you appeared to be using as a bookmark.

Guy Adams

#13. I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

John Surtees

#14. It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. They left Puonvangi at the 303rd in the company of a riotous party of Binlisi conventioneers. The Birilisi were an avian species and much given to excessive narcoticism; they and Puonvangi were guaranteed to get on. There was much fluttering.

Iain M. Banks

#16. As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.
- Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own.
"I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?"
"It makes you a miracle."
She held his gaze. "Exactly.

P.C. Cast

#18. Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

Eberhard Weber

#21. I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. There is no escaping the fact, however, that social science research on the distribution of wealth was for a long time based on a relatively limited set of firmly established facts together with a wide variety of purely theoretical speculations.

Thomas Piketty

#23. The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Alexander Alekhine

#24. I was forced to agree.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. 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

#26. John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.

Guy Adams

#27. A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

Charles Lamb

#28. Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

David E. Fessenden

#29. Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#30. There is absolutely nothing we can ever do that will cause God to forsake us. He will never turn away from us.

Daya Mata

#31. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

Emma Jane Holloway

#32. Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

Tom Gjelten