“Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]”

“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he [Holmes], 'but it is a common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”

“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.]”

“I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]”

“Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes”