Sherlock Holmes Quotes

• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Bottle
  • Mantel-piece
  • Morocco case

• My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • People
  • Business
  • Name

• On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Cases
  • Notes
  • Methods

• Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Trait
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Drug Addict

• Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Night
  • Occasions
  • Sherlock Holmes

• It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Yawn

• Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Simplicity
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Dr. Watson