Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Necessity has no law.

If you can, you must.

Necessity has its own rules

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

There's no police like Holmes.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.