The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Quotes

“We believe we know a great lot, with our instruments and things, but I was old enough then to believe we don't know half as much as we think we do, and old enough now to believe we never will. Holmes”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“We all have days when the world seems too much to bear, and all we want to do is lock ourselves in our room and not come out. It's an illusion, this idea that a foot of wood and plaster can seal us off from the troubles that beset us, but it's a comforting illusion, and it resonates.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“music has many mansions.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Life, as we often learn too late, is in the living.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Eliminate the impossible, Watson, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Like Houdini. Like any entertainer, any storyteller. Shakespeare lied. You have lied yourself, my friend, in your descriptions of our adventures." "I have disguised individuals," I said, taking offense. "I have, yes, perhaps, dissembled occasionally . . . " I hesitated, and then I nodded. "Very well. I have lied.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“He wants to believe. He has exchanged Occam's razor for Occam's kaleidoscope, complicating simple facts into explanations of impossible complexity.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes