Sherlock Holmes - Sayings

“A complex mind,” said Holmes. “All great criminals have that.”
“Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.”

“A superficial suggestion of afternoon tea and all the cruelty of the grave behind it.”

“Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”

“I disregard the blusterer, but this is the sort of man who says rather less than he means.”

“Women of the De Merville type do not act like that. She would love him the more as a disfigured martyr. No, no. It is his moral side, not his physical, which we have to destroy.”