The Whole Art of Detection Quotes

“I have given up attempting to plumb the depths of the female psyche, Watson. It is not unlike contemplating infinity--a worthy, even a spiritual meditation, destined from the beginning to fail entirely.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“but if I bring them Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watkins”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“Granted, thinking is not your vocation, but you might have given it a touch more effort.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“enjoyable cigarette composed of a medium-bodied Turkish and Virginia blend.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“which would have been a daunting task save for the fact that bullets are very effective arguments”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“No,” I agreed, remembering Miss Susan Cushing and her ghastly receipt of salt-packed severed ears some six years previous, during what were for me far happier times.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“What I seek cannot be found by traveling backward.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“it is scientifically impossible for parsley to sink into butter.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“have been used to aiding you in perilous situations, and very occasionally aiding you at tea parties, but never simultaneously.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“Holmes brother was as likely to leave his orbit of the Diogenes Club, his government office, and his Pall Mall lodgings as he was to suddenly take flight.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“the sun gleamed in the vanishing puddles like the shards of a shattered decanter,”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“I could imagine no finer pastime than that of thrashing Mr. Lucien Treadwell down our staircase.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“My friend is prepared to swear that no female is to be entirely trusted, and that the very finest examples of the sex are yet subject to flights of deception and caprice capable of driving any logician to distraction.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“There are precious few crimes in this world, merely a hundred million variations upon a dozen or so themes.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt before a midnight fireplace whilst the tempest without erased the natural world.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes