By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a cha….

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, ….

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem..

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own ….

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great….

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy..

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and ….

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pl….

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them..

It’s every man’s business to see justice done..

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes….

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it..

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in….

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange….

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or….

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather..

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay..

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what y….

...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart t….

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law..