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A Study in Scarlet (1888)

\"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.\"

Part 1, chap. 1, p. 15

\"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.\"

Part 1, chap. 2, p. 23

\"The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical — so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.\"

Part 1, chap. 2, pp. 23-24

\"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are

quite sure of the fact.\"

Part 1, chap. 3, p. 26

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.\"

Part 1, chap. 3, p. 27

See also The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, \"A Scandal in Bohemia\

\"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.\"

Part 1, chap. 3, p. 31

\"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.\"

Part 1, chap. 4, p. 33

\"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?\"

Part 2, chap. 7, p. 83

\"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.\"

Part 2, chap. 7, p. 83

\"There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.\"

Part 2, chap. 7, p. 84

The Sign of the Four (1890)

\"Which is it to-day,\" I asked, \"morphine or co-ca-ine?\"

He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.

\"It is co-ca-ine,\" he said, \"a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?\"

Chap. 1, p. 89

\"I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos'. In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash.\"

Chap. 1, p. 91

\"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.\"

Chap. 1, p. 92

For some similar formulations see The Sign of the Four, chap. 6; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, \"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet\"; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, \"Silver Blaze\"; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, \"The Adventure of the Priory School\"; His Last Bow, \"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans\"; The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, \"The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier\".

\"I never guess. It is a shocking habit – destructive to the logical faculty.\"

Chap. 1, p. 93

\"Hence the co-ca-ine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts acrothe dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the

use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.\"

Chap. 1, p. 93

He smiled gently. \"It is of the first importance,\" he cried, \"not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.\"

Chap. 2, p. 96

“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.”

Chap. 2, p. 96

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

Chap. 6, p. 111

\"You know my methods. Apply them\".

Chap. 6, p. 112

\"What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that?”

\"On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.\"

Chap. 6, p. 113

\"It is the unofficial force – the Baker Street irregulars.\"

Chap. 8, p. 126

“Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes. “He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Chap. 10, p. 137

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

A Scandal in Bohemia

For Watson's extended quote on Holmes's attitude towards Irene Adler, please see the main Wikipedia article Sherlock Holmes [1] under the section \"Holmes and women\"

\"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.\"

Page 162

\"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.\"

Page 163

See also ‘’A Study in Scarlet’’, Part 1, chap. 3, above.

The Red-Headed League

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

Page 176

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.”

Page 184

A Case of Identity

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

Page 190

\"There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.\"

Page 191

\"The little things are infinitely the most important.\"

Page 194

\"I will not insult your intelligence by telling you how I acertained that you take snuff.\"

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

\"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureleand commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.\"

Page 202

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,\" answered Holmes thoughtfully. \"It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your

own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.”

Page 204

\"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.\"

Page 214

The Five Orange Pips

\"The observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.\"

Page 225

“It is not so impossible, however, that a man should posseall knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this, I have endeavoured in my case to do.”

Page 225

\"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.\"

Page 225

The Man with the Twisted Lip

\"It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.\"

Page 238

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

\"On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.\"

Page 246

\"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my busineto know what other people don't know.\"

Page 254

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

\"You are Holmes, the meddler.”

My friend smiled.

”Holmes, the busybody!”

His smile broadened.

”Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!”

Holmes chuckled heartily.

Pages 264-265

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Page 272

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Page 315

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

\"Data! Data! Data!\" he cried impatiently. \"I can't make bricks without clay.\"

Page 322

“The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

Page 323

\"I am glad of all details,\" remarked my friend, \"whether they seem to you to be relevant or not.\"

Page 324

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)

Silver Blaze

“Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.”

Page 336

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

Page 339

“That is the case as it appears to the police, and improbable as it is, all other explanations are more improbable still.”

Page 339

\"Is there any other 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.

Page 347

The Yellow Face

“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”

Page 360

The Stockbroker’s Clerk

\"Results without causes are much more impressive.\"

Page 363

The Reigate Puzzle

\"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.\"

Page 407

The Naval Treaty

\"Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.\"

Page 466

The Final Problem

“He is the Napoleon of crime”.

Page 471

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”

Chap. 2, p. 679

\"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.\"

Chap. 4, p. 687

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

Chap. 5, p. 696

\"Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old legend which Dr. Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darknewhen the powers of evil are exalted.\"

Chap. 6, p. ?

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

\"There is no prospect of danger, or I should not dream of stirring out without you.\"

Page 502

The Adventure of the Dancing Men

\"What one man can invent another can discover.\"

Page 525

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

\"We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the tap-room and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous. He ended a string of abuse by a vicious back-hander, which I failed to entirely avoid. The next few minutes were delicious. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. I emerged as you see me. Mr. Woodley went home in a cart. So ended my country trip, and it must be confessed that, however enjoyable, my day on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than your own.\"

Pages 532-533

\"So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!\"

Page 537

The Adventure of the Priory School

“It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong.”

Page 550

The Adventure of Black Peter

\"There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.\"

Page 559

\"One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.\"

Page 567

The Adventure of the Three Students

\"Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.\"

Page 600

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

\"There is so much red tape in these matters.\"

Page 626

Dr Leslie Armstrong \"I have heard your name, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and I am aware of your profession – one of which I by no means approve.\"

Holmes \"In that, Doctor, you will find yourself in agreement with every criminal in the country.\"

Page 629

\"A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o’ Groat’s, and our friend, Armstrong, would have to drive through the Cam before he would shake Pompey off his trail.\"

Page 633

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

\"Come, Watson, come!\" he cried. \"The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!\"

Page 636

\"Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a si-mp-ler one is at hand.\"

Page 642

\"What I know is unofficial; what he knows is official.\"

Page 647

The Adventure of the Second Stain

\"Now, Watson, the fair se-x is your department\".

Page 657

\"Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.\"

Page 659

The Valley of Fear (1915)

\"The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited.\"

Part 1, chap. 1, p. 712

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Part 1, chap. 1, p. 773

\"Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my

corpse was lying within a few yards of her.\"

Part 1, Chap. 6, p. 801

\"There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.\"

Part 1, chap. 6, p. 802

His Last Bow (1917)

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

\"There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.\"

Part 2, p. 888

The Cardboard Box

\"There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.\"

Page 896

The Red Circle

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

the last.\"

Page 907

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

“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 chisel, and a revolver. S. H.”

It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

Page 925

“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Page 926

\"Think of Mycroft's note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news. We are bound to go.\"

My answer was to rise from the table.

\"You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go.\"

Page 926

The Dying Detective

\"Holmes, you are not yourself. A sick man is but a child\"

Page 933

\"You fidget me beyond endurance. You, a doctor–you are enough to drive a patient into an asylum.\"

Page 935

\"Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid maof oysters, so prolific the creatures seem.\"

Page 936

\"You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible!\"

Page 936

\"But I have reasons to suppose that this opinion would be very much more frank and valuable if he imagines that we are alone\"

Page 938

\"I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glaof water. But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome.\"

Page 940

\"Three days of absolute fast does not improve one’s beauty, Watson.\"

Page 941

\"Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.\"

Page 941

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