"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in
shoe leather.”
“I cannot live without brainwork. 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
across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and
material?”
“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say
again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo
for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux
of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s
heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and
Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers.
Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may
for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less
astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.”
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Holmes
"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."
"Education
never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
"When the spirits are low, when
the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems
worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without
thought on anything but the ride you are taking."
" A
dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a
sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous
people have dangerous ones."
"When the impossible has been
eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible."
"For strange effects and
extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more
daring than any effort of the imagination."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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