#sherlock

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #imagination

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #suicide #the-veiled-lodger #life

Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes. ↗

— Graham Moore

#conan #doyle #holmes #mystery #sherlock

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. ---Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intellect #sherlock-holmes #brain

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#crime

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