The Complete Sherlock Holmes Quotes

“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance. Surely our profession, Mr. Mac, would be a drab and sordid one if we did not sometimes set the scene so as to glorify our results. The blunt accusation, the brutal tap upon the shoulder - what can one make of such a denouement? But the quick inference, the subtle trap, the clever forecast of coming events, the triumphant vindication of bold theories - are these not the pride and the justification of our life's work? At the present moment you thrill with the glamour of the situation and the anticipation of the hunt. Where would be that thrill if I had been as definite as a timetable?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“Talihsizlikler ne zaman tek tek gelmiş ki zaten,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“Her zamanki hikâye. Beynin ne kadar doluysa cebin de o kadar boş, değil mi?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“... Zavallı Mary'yle ilgili söylediklerinizse yüreğimin derinliklerinde içimi acıtmaya devam edecek. Sanırım sizin yetenekleriniz bile şimdi nerede olduğunu bilmemize yetmez."
"Sanırım, nerede olduğunu kesin olarak söyleyebiliriz," dedi Holmes, "Sör George Burnwell'in olduğu yerde. Ayrıca şunu da aynı şekilde kesin olarak söyleyebiliriz ki suçu ne olursa olsun, bedelini yakında fazlasıyla ödeyecek.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“Kesin öyle," dedi Holmes, onaylarcasına başını sallarken. "Buna şüphem yok. Peki, sen hiç dilencilikten tutuklanmadın mı?"
"Defalarca, ama kesilen ceza benim için nedir ki?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II

“I have nothing against you,” mumbled Baldwin, feeling his throat.
“Well, then,” cried the other, relapsing in a moment of bluff joviality, “we are all good friends again and there’s an end of the matter.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II