Holmes Quotes - Page 8

• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Friendship, Falling In Love, War

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

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• I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Two, Stories

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• "I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Looks, Reputation

  "The House of Silk". Book by Anthony Horowitz, November 1, 2011.

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• I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mean, Weekend, Criminals

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• As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rocks, Water, Gazing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Old Friends, Wish

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Science

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 3

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• John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Trying, Generations

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Stories, Detectives, Tradition

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• I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Giving, Reassuring

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, May, Realizing

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.639, Ageless Reads

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• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Faith, Insightful

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• And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Interesting, Littles

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• The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

  Bonnie Greer

  Hands, Feminist, Lucy

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  Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Imagination, Scary

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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• Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.

  Steven Moffat

  Race, People, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

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• Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.

  Steven Moffat

  Wise, People, Mountain

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• That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Men, Talking

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• Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, Literature, Secretive

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.21

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• The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Reading, Son, Years

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there for the conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Nice, Birth

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• The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

  Rex Stout

  Stories, Incredibles, Ends

  " Invitation to Learning" with Jacques Barzun and Elmer Davis; transcript in "The New Invitation to Learning: The Essence of the Great Books of All Times", book by Van Doren (1942), page 246, January 1942.

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