"“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
— Warren Ellis

"'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

"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
---Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

""Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
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— - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes)

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"What one man can invent, another can discover."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

""I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories)

"I never guess. 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."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true. "
— Stephen Kendrick (Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes)

"There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time. "
— Stephen Kendrick (Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes)

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? "
— Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
— Oscar Wilde

"This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go."
— Oscar Wilde

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
— Oscar Wilde

"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is."
— Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost)