"The Adventure Of The Three Students" Quotes

There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

The motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.

It is always a joy to me to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

You may remember the old Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is, the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

An investigator needs facts, and not legends or rumours.

It is always awkward doing business with an alias.

I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.

I have often had occasion to point out to my friend Dr. Watson the advantage of having a true artist as a friend.