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“You see, but you do not observe.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most.
“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.
They are important, you understand, without being interesting.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook.
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
‘There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.’
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,”
“I have been beaten four times—three times by men, and once by a woman.”
When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.”
