The fair sex is your department..

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood..

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! B….

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with ro….

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is i….

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes..

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction t….

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me..

I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less tha….

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie..

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones….

Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watso….

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive..

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so..

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it..

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces..

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone..

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!.

What one man can invent, another can discover..

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by s….

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy..