201 quotes found
“Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.”
“A change of work is the best rest.”
“Anything is better than stagnation.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“A change of work is the best rest.”
“It is easy to be wise after the event.”
“It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.”
“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is ...”
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on...”
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watsonall else will come.”
“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the de...”
“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
“Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look o...”
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's sel...”
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
“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,' re...”
“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
