The Return of Sherlock Holmes Quotes

There is no prospect of danger, or I should not dream of stirring out without you.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

As you have no doubt frequently observed, Watson, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

When a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

What one man can invent another can discover.

What I know is unofficial, what he knows is official.

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.

Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department.