The Sherlock Holmes Handbook Quotes

“Holmes says that “a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use”—and little else.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. —“The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. —A Study in Scarlet”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. —The Valley of Fear”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. —“The Adventure of the Red Circle”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see. —“The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Guard their secrets closely. It is no small thing to have royal secrets entrusted to you,”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“In Holmes’s defense, Watson characterizes his friend’s habit as an “occasional” reaction to “the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“It would be an exaggeration to say that Sherlock Holmes missed his true calling as a musician, for if he had given up his magnifying glass for a bow, the world of law enforcement would have missed him sorely. But Holmes loved music as he never loved a woman; music sustained him, and his great powers of detection veritably depended on it.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Above all, Holmes was a music lover. Music was his tonic: It calmed his nerves after periods of exertion and sharpened his keen mind during especially difficult cases. In”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Holmes was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer of no ordinary merit. —“The Red-Headed League”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Always keep your mind occupied. “To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine,” Holmes says in “The Devil’s Foot.” “It racks itself to pieces.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Always be a gentleman. Although Holmes often expressed his distrust (and occasionally even his dislike) of women, Watson writes of his “remarkable gentleness and courtesy” when dealing with them and notes with some amazement that his “ingratiating” manner made it easy for women to confide in him.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“I would not tell them too much,” said Holmes. “Women are never to be entirely trusted – not the best of them.” —The Sign of the Four”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Don’t assume that all children can be trusted. A child with reason to hurt you will do so without hesitation and without the troublesome moral compunction of a like-minded adult.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.” —Sherlock Holmes, “The Copper Beeches”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Stick by old friends, whatever their infirmities”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask . . . the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Defend them with your life.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“herlock Holmes was a man who seemed to require neither love nor companionship, who was as happy alone with his chemistry experiments and cocaine bottle as he was in the company of others. “Sometimes I found myself regarding him as . . . a brain without a heart,”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“A less outlandish school of thought holds that Holmes had married Irene Adler—the beautiful opera singer from “A Scandal in Bohemia” who was, famously, one of the few persons ever to outwit the detective”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“owerful minds are not always drawn to the pursuit of good; there are those whose genius is tainted with criminality”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Will the Real Moriarty Please Stand Up?”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“When one tries to rise above Nature,” Holmes pontificates, “one is liable to fall below it.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Act as though you know the truth—even if you don’t.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Be frank with me, and we may do some good. Play tricks with me, and I’ll crush you.” — Sherlock Holmes, “The Abbey Grange”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. —“The Adventure of the Three Gables”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

“Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. —“The Adventure of the Red Circle” On”
― Ransom Riggs, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook