Holmes quotes

  • To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      Of Irene  Adler. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 'Scandal in Bohemia'.

  • 'I am inclined to think'said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Valley of Fear, ch.1.

  • John Clellon Holmes†and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'

    -Jack (John) Kerouac
      Interview in Playboy,  Jun.

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