All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a sing….

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again..

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region with….

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner..

Anything is better than stagnation..

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chis….

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions..

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exa….

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings..

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament..

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that….

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example..

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to s….

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worth….

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of th….

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangero….

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementar….

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can ….

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really ….