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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) QUOTES

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) QUOTES

1 " A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

2 " Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

3 " It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

4 " Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

5 " The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

6 " I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

7 " Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

8 " When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

9 " The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

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

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

11 " He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

12 " To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.... And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

13 " Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. 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 "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

14 " It is more than possible; it is probable. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

15 " I have taken to living by my wits. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

16 " ❛Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain❜ "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

17 " It's every man's business to see justice done. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

18 " Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

19 " Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

20 " Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot. "

― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)