Sherlock Holmes

"I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual — that's to say, you handled it fairly well."

It was more a feeling of duty—a feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this place. They talk of woman’s instinct; perhaps it was woman’s instinct which gave me that feeling.

“You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not think you a quite exceptional woman.”

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect

“it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—“you

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent,