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View Quote Holmes: You have the grand gift of silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
View Quote Variation on "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," he said. "It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
View Quote from The Man with the Twisted Lip
View Quote Watson: You're not human!
View Quote Inspired by "there is something positively inhuman in you at times."
View Quote From The Sign of Four
View Quote Holmes: The little details are by far the most important.
View Quote Variation on "The little things are infinitely the most important."
View Quote From A Case of Identity
View Quote Holmes: Data, data, data, I cannot make bricks without clay.
View Quote Variation on "'Data! Data! Data!' he cried impatiently. 'I can't make bricks without clay.'"
View Quote From The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
View Quote Holmes: It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Inevitably, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
View Quote From A Scandal in Bohemia
View Quote Holmes: Crime is common. Logic is rare.
View Quote From The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
View Quote Holmes: It makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely.
View Quote From The Boscombe Valley Mystery
View Quote Holmes: My mind rebels at stagnation; give me problems, give me work.
View Quote Variation on "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my proper atmosphere."
View Quote from The Sign of the Four
View Quote Mary Morstan: He'd say it was worth the wound … I know you care about him as much as I do.
View Quote Variation on Watson's "It was worth a wound, it was worth many wounds, to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask."
View Quote From The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

View Quote Holmes: Nothing more elusive than an obvious fact.
View Quote From The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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