"The Hound of the Baskervilles" Quotes

There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

I have found it all out. You are right, there is a mystery about the Baskerville hound.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

What one man can invent another can discover.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

I was a fool not to call you in at the time, Watson. You have always been the piper, so it is for you to call the tune.