Sayings
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
28/05/11 12:30
“You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
18/08/09 14:04
“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. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/08/09 16:58
“Even so trivial a matter as cooking an egg demands an attention which is conscious of the passage of time.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
31/07/09 14:23
“You can’t play with edged tools forever without cutting those dainty hands.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
26/07/09 14:33
“But why not eat?”
“Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.” Read More...
“Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
21/07/09 17:09
“A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
18/07/09 17:23
“A complex mind,” said Holmes. “All great criminals have that.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
15/07/09 16:14
“I fear,” said Holmes, “that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me. Yet we must exhaust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
05/07/09 13:46
“The situation strikes me as so desperate that the most extreme measures are justified.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
29/06/09 14:00
“I play the game for the game’s own sake,” said he. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
22/06/09 17:29
“Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?” (Watson)
“What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?”
“For my education, Holmes.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case. There is neither money nor credit in it, and yet one would wish to tidy it up.”
“What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?”
“For my education, Holmes.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case. There is neither money nor credit in it, and yet one would wish to tidy it up.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
20/06/09 18:14
“Man or woman?” I (Watson) asked.
“Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.” Read More...
“Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
14/11/08 15:23
“You think, sir, that unless this document is recovered there will be war?”
“I think it is very probable.”
“Then, sir, prepare for war.”
“That is a hard saying, Mr. Holmes.”
(Lord Bellinger speaking first to Sherlock Holmes)
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“I think it is very probable.”
“Then, sir, prepare for war.”
“That is a hard saying, Mr. Holmes.”
(Lord Bellinger speaking first to Sherlock Holmes)
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Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/11/08 13:38
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot." Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
17/10/08 14:53
“For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
13/10/08 16:48
“The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
23/09/08 16:52
“You must play your cards as best you can when such a stake is on the table.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
21/09/08 14:13
“There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/09/08 16:48
“It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
27/08/08 15:46
“It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one’s audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
24/08/08 17:29
“He had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop. He wished to improve that which was already perfect.... and so he ruined all.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
18/08/08 18:05
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
13/08/08 15:25
“I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain.” said he. “Results without causes are much more impressive.”
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Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/08/08 14:29
“You see, at the commencement of an investigation it is something to know that your client is in close contact with someone who, for good or evil, has an exceptional nature.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
09/08/08 19:45
“My dear Watson,” said he, “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
07/08/08 14:24
“ ....though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
04/08/08 16:40
“She had flown to tea as an agitated woman will.”
“It’s every man‘s business to see justice done.”
“It’s every man‘s business to see justice done.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
31/07/08 17:19
“The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
26/07/08 13:50
“It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete, and of such personal importance to so many people that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact — of absolute undeniable fact — from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.”
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Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
22/07/08 17:15
“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
21/07/08 12:27
“It is a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a good deal.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
20/07/08 13:16
“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
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Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
18/07/08 17:21
“Experience,” said Holmes, laughing. “Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.”
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
17/07/08 16:02
“The matter is a perfectly trivial one” — he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat — “but there are points in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even of instruction.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
15/07/08 11:58
“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
13/07/08 13:25
“None of those (Cases) which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
11/07/08 08:34
It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
09/07/08 14:46
“life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
07/07/08 17:06
“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
06/07/08 13:52
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” Read More...