Quotes on Holmes

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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.

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

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.