Sherlock Holmes Quotes

“I consider, that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and A Scandal in Bohemia: Official Edition

“The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and A Scandal in Bohemia: Official Edition

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and A Scandal in Bohemia: Official Edition

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and A Scandal in Bohemia: Official Edition