#sherlock

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915. ↗

— Laurie R. King

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #historical

The game is afoot. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #adventure

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. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#conan #demonstrate #doyle #even #existence

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#morbid #moriarty #science #sherlock #skull

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #watson #humor

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#arthur-conan-doyle #classic #fiction #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#loss-of-innocence #poverty #sherlock-holmes

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. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#curious #dog #humor #incident #mystery

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Joe Navarro

#sherlock-holmes

Omne ignotum pro magnifico, ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes