Consulting Detective Quotes

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

There's no police like Holmes.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.