The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Quotes

“Considero que el cerebro del hombre es originalmente un pequeño desván vacío que uno debe ir llenando con los enseres que prefiere. El necio mete en él todos los trastos que encuentra coma de modo que los conocimientos que podrían serle útiles no disponen del lugar o en el mejor de los casos está mezclados con tantas otras cosas que es difícil dar con ellos punto ahora bien el artesano habilidoso pone mucho cuidado con lo que introducen su cerebro desván punto solo tendrá las herramientas que puedan ayudarle en su trabajo pero de estas tendrá un buen surtido y todas dispuestas en un orden perfecto.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The Adventures of the Beryl Coronet”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence

A Case of Identity”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Ο άνθρωπος πρέπει να διατηρεί ένα μικρό απόθεμα νοημοσύνης για να την χρησιμοποιεί όποτε την χρειάζεται και την υπόλοιπη να την αφήνει στο ξύλινο μέρος της βιβλιοθήκης του, όπου μπορεί να την βρει, όταν την χρειαστεί.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“We have got to the deductions and the inferences,' said Lestrade, winking at me. 'I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies.'
'You are right,' said Holmes demurely, 'you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always ”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“I am afraid,” said I, “that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case.”

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” he answered, laughing.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope’s Court looked like a coster’s orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes