"I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I'm a
"My name is Here in London we Sherlock have lots of government Holmes. detectives and lots It is my of private ones. business to know what other people do not know." consulting detective.
When these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight."
"Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without
possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."
"I am lost without my Boswell."
"Like all other arts, the Science
of Deduction & Analysis is
one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
"I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one
'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos'.
In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash."
"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
"'Which is it today,' I asked,
'morphine or cocaine?' He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-leather volume which he had opened.
'It is cocaine,' he said, 'a seven-per-cent solution.
Would you like to try it?'"
"There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen."
"Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings."
"Holmes was working hard over a chemical investigation. A large curved retort was boiling furiously over the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. He dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing a solution over to the table."
"He is a first-class chemist."
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name."
"All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen."
"'Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my latter years.' He picked up the volume from the table and read out the whole title,' Practical Handbook
of Bee Culture, with some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen.' Alone I did it. Behold the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days, when I watched the little working gangs as once I watched the criminal world of London.'"
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