Sherlock Holmes - Sayings

“The matter is a perfectly trivial one” — he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat — “but there are points in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even of instruction.”
“Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal.”

“On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”

“It’s a bonny thing,” (the Blue Carbuncle) said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil’s pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. “

“ Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?”

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

“No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.”

“He’s not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity.”

“I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to jail now, and you make him a jail-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness.”