#sherlock

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

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. ↗

— Rex Stout

#holmes #least #marvelous #scene #sherlock

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts #mediocrity #recognition #sherlock-holmes #talent

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 skillful 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. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #brain

The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "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." And he stretched his long white hand up for it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#humour #sherlock-holmes-watson #business

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#education

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#broadsheet #journalism #newspaper #sherlock-holmes #the-times

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#details #detection #facts #importance #sherlock-holmes

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#dr-watson #mystery #sherlock-holmes #art