Sherlock Quotes

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. (Rex Stout)
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. View quote
Mark Haddon
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight. View quote
Jeremy Brett
I really mean what I say. A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him. View quote
Rex Stout
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. View quote
Rex Stout
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. View quote
Stanley Bing
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways. View quote
Henning Mankell
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. (Diane Setterfield)
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. View quote
Jeffery Deaver
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. View quote
Jenny Nimmo
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era. View quote
Laurie R. King
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. View quote
Frederick Buechner
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. View quote
Eoin Colfer
It didn't require a Sherlock Holmes to size up the situation. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't know what I'd imagined - something like Sherlock Holmes - [...] Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn't expected him to be quite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean. When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at the pictures. [...] He looked like a hairdresser in a comic play! View quote
Agatha Christie
It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
What is that? What is that supposed to be? It's never really casual, you always have to turn up. It's never casual unless you're both wearing Sherlock Holmes hats or something. You're covered in crisps, one of you's eating an omelette, the other one's doing a crossword, then it's kind of casual. View quote
Dylan Moran