‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
‘I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
Chapter 1: “The Science of Deduction”
‘There is nothing like first-hand evidence.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Study in Scarlet
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 3: “The Problem”
‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Scandal in Bohemia
‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Scandal in Bohemia
‘I never guess. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
Chapter 2: “The Science of Deduction”
‘You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Bascombe Valley Mystery
‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Bascombe Valley Mystery
“‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.'”
Exchange between Inspector Gregory &Sherlock Holmes
-Silver Blaze
‘Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
Chapter 1: “The Science of Deduction”
‘How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
Chapter 6: “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
‘…when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Blanched Soldier
‘It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Beryl Coronet
‘Come, Watson, come!’ he cried. ‘The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Adventure of the The Abbey Grange
“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay.”
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
‘I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
‘They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,’ he remarked with a smile. ‘It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Study in Scarlet
‘There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Study in Scarlet
‘I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Study in Scarlet
Chapter 3: “Light in the Darkness”