How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

. . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

Without being too blunt – you are a bachelor who lived with another bachelor for many years.”“Purely platonic, I assure you.

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don’t.

Sherlock Holmes, "İmkansız olanı elerseniz,elimizde kalan ne kadar mümkün görünmese de doğrudur," derdi.

Avevamo entrambi voglia di morire e di rinascere, cancellando il “John” e lo “Sherlock”, risorgendo nel “noi”.

My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about what the Ripper did to his victims.

Incredible,” said Constable Dawes. “Impossible,” said Sergeant Michaels. “Elementary,” said my professor with a grin.

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

Something has gone amiss with the world, he found himself thinking. Something has changed in the marrow, and I’m at a loss to make sense of it.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.