Are you prepared to be the complete Watson?" he asked.
"Watson?"
"Do-you-follow-me-Watson; that one. Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing? Because it all helps."
"My dear Tony," said Bill delightedly, "need you ask?" Antony said nothing, and Bill went on happily to himself, "I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me. Tut, tut, you know my methods. Where is the tobacco? The tobacco is in the Persian slipper. Can I leave my practice for a week? I can.
Tag: sherlock-holmes watson
Do you remember," he said, "one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor old Watson had been up and down them a thousand times, but he had never thought of counting them, whereas Holmes had counted them as a matter of course, and knew that there were seventeen. And that was supposed to be the difference between observation and non-observation. Watson was crushed again, and Holmes appeared to him more amazing than ever. Now, it always seemed to me that in that matter Holmes was the ass, and Watson the sensible person. What on earth is the point of keeping in your head an unnecessary fact like that? If you really want to know at any time the number of steps to your lodging, you can ring up your landlady and ask her.
A.A. MilneTag: sherlock-holmes watson
Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes
Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l’ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: music sherlock-holmes violin
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: sherlock-holmes humour wrong watson
What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes clue
No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Tag: sherlock-holmes ghosts scepticism realism sherlockian holmesian
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes
When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes doyle creeping-man
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