“You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.”

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

“Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.”

“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.”

“I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”

“I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.”

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”