"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-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

"The game is afoot."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

""Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

"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

"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

"'I followed you.'

'I saw no one.'

'That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.'"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study In Scarlet)

"As Sherlock Holmes would say.." My Dear,Dear, MR. Watson.. just what in the world do you think you are doing?""
— Amy Harley

""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 (The Language of Bees)

"We're two men who happen to be room-mates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's badass."
— Robert Downey Jr

"Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte."
— Sherlock Holmes

"You have been in Afghanistan I perceive."
— Conan Doyle

"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle