“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow men.”
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem.”
“I am a poor man’s consultant.”
“You know my methods, Watson.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
“You have erred, perhaps, but you are guilty of no crime.”
“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
“When I hear you give your reasons, I seem to see it all as plain as a map.”
“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.”
“The air of London is the sweeter for my presence.”
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence.”
“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
“The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
“It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.”
“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.”
“There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.”
“There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
“It is a good thing to know the worst, for it is at the worst that one can lay plans for the better.”
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
“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.”
“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.”
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
“My professional charges are upon a fixed scale. I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.”
“There is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do.”
“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“You will not apply my precept, he said, shaking his head. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”
“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.”
“We can but try — the motto of the firm.”
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
“A woman’s instinct is often as true as a man’s reasoning.”
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“I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.”
“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
“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.”
“The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money.”
“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.”
“The game is afoot.”
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
“The little things are infinitely the most important.”
“A client to me is a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“I play the game for the game’s own sake.”
“We should be prepared for any change of fortune.”
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use.”
“It is always a joy to meet an American, for he is the kindest, most straightforward and most generous of men.”
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
“The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
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“One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.”