Holmes Quotes - Page 6

• I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sound, Looks, Littles

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Information, Congrats

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.93, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

  Kam Williams

  Children, Fascinated

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sparring Partner, Years, Twenties

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• I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that. I had a little talk with myself in my bedroom and I said, Don't think about getting in the ring with Larry Holmes, I mean, Don't forget Larry Holmes is getting in the ring with you. You're champ for so many years. And just do what you're best at. What I am best at was not letting anybody have their way with me in the ring.

  Michael Spinks

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

  A. A. Gill

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

  Matthew Pearl

  Drinking, Men, Said

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• The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brother, Thinking, Night

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• Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wine, Oysters, White

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All about Sherlock Holmes”, p.177, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lessons, Lasts, Ends

  His Last Bow 'The Adventure of the Red Circle'

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• You know my methods. Apply them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Statistics, Method, Knows

  Sign of Four (1890) ch. 6

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• Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Differences, Water, Looks

  Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.128, Hachette UK

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Actors, Crime, Lost

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)”, p.570, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Flower, Zombie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.765, Penguin

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• You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

  Jenny Nimmo

  Country, Uncles, Son

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• But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

  Laurie R. King

  Teacher, Husband, Hair

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• Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.

  Laurie R. King

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

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• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Pain, Doe, Detective Work

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

  Douglas Adams

  Truth, Answers, Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

  Laurie R. King

  Daughter, Distance, Eye

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• I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rose, Gentleman, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.8, Zillmann Publishing

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

  Steve Coogan

  Book, Hard Work, Home

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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• You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silence, Companion, Watson

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• I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Research, Sociopath, Psychopath

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• Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.

  Tom Scharpling

  Humanity, Matter, Kind

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