The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Quotes.

1. "Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes

2. "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

3. "Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

4. "It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

5. "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 all 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."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

6. "I never can resist a touch of the dramatic."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

7. "He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

8. "I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

9. "I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

10. "To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes