45 Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Who does not know the famous detective Sherlock Holmes? The thought of this character is full of wisdom, he is cold and he has a great sense of duty. He can play the violin and is addicted to morphine and sometimes cocaine. He is able to use his deduction in the most incredible way thanks to the details that customers leave nearby. His colleague Watson always accompanies him and has idolized him.

Next we want to leave you some of his best phrases so that you can understand his intelligence. He is a very popular character that the public has always liked, so it is more than likely that you know who this character. If you did not know who he is, now you will get an idea of ​​his way of thinking.

The best Sherlock Holmes quotes

With these phrases you will get to know him a little more and surely you will want to know even more about him and you will start reading or watching his movies.

1. The press, Watson, is a very valuable institution, if you know how to use it.
2. There is no combination of events that a man's intelligence cannot explain.
3. There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
4. The main test of the true greatness of man lies in the perception of his own smallness.
5. I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
6. I am a brain. The rest of my body is a mere appendage.
7. I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
8. The world is full of obvious things, which no one by chance ever observes.
9. There is nothing more misleading than an obvious fact.
10. Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.
11. Nothing is more misleading than an obvious fact.
12. There is a red criminal thread in the colorless skein of life, and our mission is to untangle it, isolate it and expose its most insignificant sinuosities.
13. I wanted to end the world, but I am content to end his.
14. Eliminate all other factors, and the one that remains must be the truth.
15. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
16. My mind is like a racing engine, breaking apart as it is not connected to the job it was built for.
17. I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn late than never.
18. I would not say that I solved it brilliantly, all I did was follow a reasoning by analyzing all the clues. Observing and reasoning are two constants in my life that I cannot let go, dear Watson.
19. On the day that Sherlock Holmes specialized in criminology, the theater lost a magnificent actor and science a keen thinker.
20. I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn late than never
21. At the Aryan, Watson, he has everything in sight. But he is unable to reason from what he sees. You are too shy about making deductions.
22. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason to do so.
23. There is no combination of events that a man's intelligence cannot explain.
24. They say that genius has an infinite capacity to take appropriate action. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
25. It is a capital mistake to theorize before having data. Insensibly, one begins to distort the facts to make them fit the theories instead of the theories fit the facts.
26. The more bizarre and grotesque an incident is, the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
27. My horror for his crimes was lost in my admiration for his skill.
28. And he was never so formidable as after spending whole days in his chair, immersed in his improvisations and in his old books.
29. It is all very well to say that a man is intelligent, but the reader wants to see examples of it.
30. Everything comes in a circle. The old wheel turns, and the same speech is repeated. Everything has been done before, and will be done again.
31. My mind rebels in stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstract cryptogram or the most complex analysis.
32. I never guess. It is a destructive habit that collides with the logic of the professional.
33. For him, what remains is his destiny; for me the bottle of cocaine.
34. Come right away, if it's convenient, if it's inconvenient come anyway.
35. You always have to look for a possible alternative and be prepared for it.
36. Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind of man would invent.
37. It is a huge mistake to lay down theories before having all the elements of judgment, because this is how it is twisted in a certain sense.
38. However, it is not so impossible for a man to possess all the knowledge that can be useful to him in his work, that is why I have made an effort in my case.
39. A woman of Spanish blood does not easily forgive such an affront.
40. The papers are sterile; Audacity and romance seem to have passed into the criminal world forever. Can you ask me, then, if I am ready to examine any new problem, however insignificant it may be?
41. Foolish people pile up in their attic all the wood they can find by hand, and so it turns out that there is no room in it for the knowledge that could be useful to them, or, at best, that knowledge is so mixed up with another pile of things, that they find it difficult to find them.
42. Circumstantial evidence is a very difficult thing. It may seem like you are aiming very directly at one thing, but if you change your point of view a bit, you may find yourself aiming in an equally inflexible way at something entirely different.
43. I believe that, originally, a person's brain is like a small empty attic in which you have to put the furniture that you prefer.
44. They say that genius has an infinite capacity to take appropriate action. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
45. Nothing clears up a case as much as claiming that it was committed by someone else.