"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Quotes

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty.

I should have more faith in a man who was ready to shoot himself than in one who only lives to make money.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.