“‘I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.’ As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.” -The Adventure of the Speckled Band
“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.” -The Adventure of the Specked Band
“‘Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality.’” -The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Good thing that is not a man Holmes faces, but the fearsome immortal Dracula! (P.S. I cannot stop using these old comic covers in the posts. It’s an addiction, someone send help.)
”’Who are you, then?’ ‘My name is Sherlock Holmes.’ ‘Good Lord!‘ ‘You have heard of me, I see.’” -The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
“Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realized that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.” -The Hound of the Baskervilles
“With his dressing gown flapping on each side of him, he looked like some huge bat glued against the side of his own house, a great square dark patch upon the moonlit wall.” -The Adventure of the Creeping Man
“‘Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.’” -A Case of Identity.
I deeply apologize for the accompanying picture. I couldn’t help myself.
Hi there, follower people, I’m Sarah and I’m the person who’s been posting the new quote pictures, ever since breadraptor put out the last admin. call to arms. Just wanted to say hi and to apologize for the three-day quote dry spell. I had finals and they were kicking me in the face, but it should be back to our regularly scheduled programming from here. If anyone has any questions for me, wants to say hi, or just wants to drop randomness in my askbox, my personal blog is at sarahlefty.tumblr.com. So yeah.
“‘The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story teller.’” -A Case of Identity
