Quotes by Sherlock Holmes

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No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
    --Sherlock Holmes 

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

"...A strange enigma is man!"
"Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarked
that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he
becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what
any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number
will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says
the statistician."
    --Sherlock Holmes 

What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go around the sun. If we went around the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

You see, but you do not observe.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

You are absolute plate-glass. I see to the very back of your mind.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
    --Sherlock Holmes 

No violence, gentlemen--no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
    --Sherlock Holmes