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My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath which ran the words, "With the Respects of Scotland Yard, November 1888." Sherlock Holmes sat with his lips parted, but no sound emerged. "Thank you," he managed at length.


Lyndsay Faye


#lestrade #pride #sherlock-holmes #beauty

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


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #watson #humor

Don't talk, Anderson. You lower the IQ of the entire street every time you open your mouth.


Sherlock Holmes


#humor #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

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#elementary #sherlock-holmes #simple #excellence

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish


Mark Frost


#mystery #sherlock-holmes #spy #truth #inspirational

I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the lumber room down the hallway, and I heard thumps and a crash. I raised my voice a trifle more than mere volume required. "I'm interested because she was. Both of them, come to that--Damian's art is infused with mystic symbols and traditions." Holmes' voice answered two inches away from my ear, making me jerk and spray a handful of maps across the floor. "Religion can be a dangerous thing, it is true," he remarked darkly, and went out again.


Laurie R. King


#mary-russell #religion #sherlock-holmes #art

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight






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