#holmes quotes

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"The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone"

Aw :(

[strange-as-it-may-seem]

- The Adventure Of The Priory School, Arthur Conan Doyle

[ID: A screenshot of a text that reads: The day was just breaking when I woke to find the long, thin form of Holmes by my bedside. He was fully dressed, and had apparently already been out.“I have done the lawn and the bicycle shed,” said he. “I have also had a ramble through the Ragged Shaw. Now, Watson, there is cocoa ready in the next room. I must beg you to hurry, for we have a great day before us.” His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. A very different Holmes, this active, alert man, from the introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us.”/end of ID] 

[inkonice-main]

~*~Sherlock Holmes Quotes~*~

#1- The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

Because the Canon is the gayest of them all. 

[tookmyskull]

I owe you many apologies, my dear Watson, but it was all-important that it should be thought I was dead, and it is quite certain that you would not have written so convincing an account of my unhappy end had you not yourself thought that it was true. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret. For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for I was in danger at the time, and any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results.

Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Empty House"

...just thought it might be worthwhile to remind people of the REAL reason Holmes didn't tell Watson for 10 years.

[tookmyskull]

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

Holmes, seriously, philosophy is not your thing. Roses have color and smell in order to attract pollinators. Don't be alarmed - it has something to do with sex. Stick to detecting.

[tookmyskull]

"...the reader sees Holmes in his Baker Street castle, protected and cushioned from the outside world but always ready to ride out to do battle with the forces of evil. This comfortable bachelor life with two good friends dining alone and relying on the services of good old, fussing, characterless Mrs. Hudson shielded Holmes not only from external pressures but from sexual and personal concerns. It was all extremely artificial but it was also the ideal setting for the master detective, reluctant as Conan Doyle was to muddy his criminal waters with too much intimate detail or involvement with other characters who might detract from the plot or from the towering personalities of Holmes and Watson. At the end of (Sign of Four) Watson tells Holmes that he intends to get married, but this is little more than a temporary interruption in their relationship."

~~From Conan Doyle, a biography by Michael Coren

[tookmyskull]

When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in Southern China, and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade, instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallized charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

[noviemon-blog]

"you're the one who tossed a poor sod off a cliff"

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