I leave you the best phrases of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character protagonist of four novels and fifty-six stories created by the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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-There is nothing like first-hand evidence.-Sherlock Holmes
-The main test of the true greatness of man lies in the perception of his own smallness.-Sherlock Holmes
-I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.-Sherlock Holmes
-I'm a brain. The rest of my body is a mere appendix.-Sherlock Holmes
-The world is full of obvious things, that no one by chance ever observes.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.-Sherlock Holmes
-I wanted to end the world, but I am content to end yours.-Sherlock Holmes
-Eliminate all other factors, and the one that remains must be the truth.-Sherlock Holmes
-I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.-Sherlock Holmes
-I believe that there are certain crimes that the law cannot touch, and that therefore, to a certain extent, justify a private revenge.-Sherlock Holmes
-My mind is like a racing engine, breaking into pieces, since it is not connected with the work for which it was built.-Sherlock Holmes
-I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn late than never.-Sherlock Holmes
- Mediocrity knows nothing superior to itself; but talent instantly recognizes a genius.-Sherlock Holmes
-My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.-Sherlock Holmes
-The game is on.-Sherlock Holmes
-For a great mind, nothing is small.-Sherlock Holmes
-No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason to do so.-Sherlock Holmes
-You know what my method is. Apply it.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is no combination of events that the intelligence of a man is not able to explain.- Sherlock Holmes
-My business is that of any other good citizen, enforce the law.-Sherlock Holmes
-Your kitchen is limited but you have as good a breakfast idea as a Scottish woman.-Sherlock Holmes
-They say that the genius has an infinite capacity to take the appropriate measures. It is a very bad definition, but it does apply to a detective job.-Sherlock Holmes
-It is a capital error to theorize before having data. Insensibly, one begins to warp the facts to make them fit theories instead of the theories fit the facts.
The stranger and grotesque an incident is, the more carefully it deserves to be examined.-Sherlock Holmes
-My horror for his crimes was lost in my admiration for his ability.-Sherlock Holmes
-And he was never so formidable as after spending whole days in his chair, immersed in his improvisations and in his old books.-Sherlock Holmes
-It is very good to say that a man is intelligent, but the reader wants to see examples of it.-Sherlock Holmes
-Everything comes in a circle. The old wheel turns, and the same speech is repeated. Everything has been done before, and will be done again.-Sherlock Holmes
-All problems seem childish after they have been explained.-Sherlock Holmes
-You always have to look for a possible alternative and be prepared for it.-Sherlock Holmes
-My mind rebels in stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstract cryptogram or the most complex analysis.-Sherlock Holmes
-What is out of the ordinary is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.-Sherlock Holmes
-Never trust general impressions, focus on details.-Sherlock Holmes
-Education never ends, it is a series of lessons with the older ones for the last.-Sherlock Holmes
-Where there is no imagination there is no terror.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is nothing more stimulating than a case in which everything goes against you.-Sherlock Holmes
-Come right away, if it is convenient, if it is inconvenient come anyway.-Sherlock Holmes
-The press is a very valuable institution, if you know how to use it.-Sherlock Holmes
-You have a great gift, silence. It makes you very valuable as a companion.-Sherlock Holmes
-You know that my method is based on the observation of nonsense.-Sherlock Holmes
-I'm not a psychopath. I am a high functioning sociopath. Do your research.-Sherlock Holmes
-Confidence is a chemical defect that is on the losing side.-Sherlock Holmes
-You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.-Sherlock Holmes
-I never guess. It is a bad habit, destructive to the logical faculty.-Sherlock Holmes
-I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then they stay with my words.-Sherlock Holmes
-What one man can invent another can discover.-Sherlock Holmes
-Nothing clarifies a case as much as affirming that it was committed by someone else.-Sherlock Holmes
-Only the truth makes us free.-Sherlock Holmes
-It may be that you are not a light, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power to stimulate light.-Sherlock Holmes
-A man always finds it difficult to realize that he may have finally lost the love of a woman, no matter how badly he has treated her.-Sherlock Holmes
-I am not the law, but I represent justice in regards to my weak powers.-Sherlock Holmes
-When you eliminate all logical solution to a problem, the illogical, although impossible, is invariably the true.-Sherlock Holmes
-Our powers, our desires, our food, all are really necessary in the first instance for our existence.-Sherlock Holmes
-The truth, whatever it may be, is preferable to an indefinite doubt.-Sherlock Holmes
-He detested and distrusted them, but he was always a chivalrous adversary.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is a red criminal thread in the colorless skein of life, and our mission consists of untangling it, isolating it and exposing its most insignificant sinuosities.
34-Underestimating yourself is something as far from the truth as exaggerating your own faculties.-Sherlock Holmes
-I was forced to agree.-Sherlock Holmes
-I am horrified by the boring routine of existence. I crave mental exaltation.-Sherlock Holmes
-Maybe when a man has special knowledge and special powers like mine, he is rather encouraged to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.-Sherlock Holmes
-A wise man does not always admit everything he knows. And sometimes an overly gullible friend can be a source of mild amusement.-Sherlock Holmes
-I cannot remember at the moment any mistake that you have omitted.-Sherlock Holmes
-The papers are sterile; Audacity and romance seem to have passed into the criminal world forever. Can you ask me, then, if I am ready to examine any new problem, however insignificant it may be? - Sherlock Holmes
-It was in those moments that for a moment he stopped being a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.-Sherlock Holmes
Deviant readers are rarely noticed for the accuracy of their learning.-Sherlock Holmes
-A strange enigma is the man.-Sherlock Holmes
-Our ideas must be as broad as nature if they aspire to interpret it.
'That man intrigues me, Watson; he knows how to hide his emotions very well.
-In the bottom of my heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to prove myself.-Sherlock Holmes
-It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.-Sherlock Holmes
-The best way to act successfully is to be so.-Sherlock Holmes
-Letting the brain work without enough material is like racing with an engine. It falls apart in pieces.-Sherlock Holmes
-The world is big enough for us. There is no need for ghosts.-Sherlock Holmes
-I would prefer that you not mention my name at all in relation to this case, since I choose to be only associated with those crimes that present some difficulty in their solution.-Sherlock Holmes
-All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are others, and I am very afraid that the British juries have not yet reached that tone of intelligence when they are going to give preference to my theories.-Sherlock Holmes
-When one tries to rise above nature, it is likely that one falls below her.-Sherlock Holmes
-I do case of never having prejudices and of meekly following the fact that leads me.-Sherlock Holmes
-It is better that you do not leave the country, you feel alone without me, and it causes an unhealthy agitation among the criminal classes.-Sherlock Holmes
-Each job has its own reward.-Sherlock Holmes
-You say we go around the sun. If we circled the moon, it would not make a penny of difference to me or my work.-Sherlock Holmes
-His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.-Sherlock Holmes
-It was easier to know him than to explain why I know.-Sherlock Holmes
-Before moving on to the moral and mental aspects of the subject that present the greatest difficulties, let the researcher begin to master more elementary problems.-Sherlock Holmes
-You know that one does not get credit when he has already explained his trick.-Sherlock Holmes
-Has two of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. It has the power of observation and of deduction. He just wants to know.-Sherlock Holmes
-As a general rule, the stranger a thing is, the less mysterious it turns out to be.-Sherlock Holmes
-Life is infinitely stranger than anything that the mind of man would invent.-Sherlock Holmes
-Out of my last 53 cases, 49 have been given credit to the police and the rest to me.-Sherlock Holmes
-We balance the possibilities and choose the most probable ones. It is the scientific use of imagination.-Sherlock Holmes
-Work is the best antidote to sadness.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is so much bureaucracy in these matters.-Sherlock Holmes
-We must seek consistency. When there is lack of it, we must be suspicious.-Sherlock Holmes
-Things must be done decently and with order.-Sherlock Holmes
-Your ideas must be as broad as nature.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is no branch of detective science so important and so neglected as the art of tracing steps.-Sherlock Holmes
-Nevertheless you must contradict my point of view, because otherwise I will continue accumulating facts about you, until your reason decomposes under them and you recognize that I am right.-Sherlock Holmes
-There is nothing so unnatural as a common place.-Sherlock Holmes
-The singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more characteristic and superficial a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.-Sherlock Holmes
-The circumstantial evidence is a very difficult thing. It may seem like you are aiming very directly at one thing, but if you change your point of view a bit, you may find it aiming in an equally uncompromising way at something entirely different.-Sherlock Holmes
-However, it is not so impossible for a man to possess all the knowledge that can be useful in his work, that is why I have made an effort in my case.-Sherlock Holmes