Sherlock Holmes Deduction Quotes

#1. Actually, she smelled like some kind of confection. It was a distinctive mix of sugar cookie and ocean.

J.M. Madden

#2. When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?

Ellen Hopkins

#3. I want to tell her that I don't think a book from the Bronze Age is a good enough reason to relegate women to the role of "helpers" for all time.

Aaron Hartzler

#4. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Anthony Horowitz

#8. It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

Benedict Wong

#9. When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

Steve Guttenberg

#10. But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.

Virginia Woolf

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

Joe Riggs

#12. The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How

Debra Dixon

#13. The gentry protect their names like hymens,
They suck their names like thumbs,
But they sign their names and something happens.
While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer,
All day, and nothing happens.

Paul Zimmer

#14. Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Albert Camus

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

Anthony Horowitz

#16. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

John Muir

#17. A goal without a plan is a wish.

Herman Edwards

#18. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

Phyllis Diller

#19. Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen! (Pam)

Sherrilyn Kenyon