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'You have ill-used us — you have tortured us — now you have murdered one of us, and you would do the same to me. You are a coward, a monster, a man fit only for the gallows!' ('The Speckled Band')
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
'You have ill-used us — you have tortured us — now you have murdered one of us, and you would do the same to me. You are a coward, a monster, a man fit only for the gallows!' ('The Speckled Band')
'the monster goes safe.' ('Wisteria Lodge')
June 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
'the monster goes safe.' ('Wisteria Lodge')
'I'll tell you, Watson. He is the king of all the blackmailers.' ('Charles Augustus Milverton')
June 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
'I'll tell you, Watson. He is the king of all the blackmailers.' ('Charles Augustus Milverton')
'The king may do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly wronged.' ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
'The king may do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly wronged.' ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
'You are right,' he cried, 'I am the king. Why should I attempt to conceal it?'
'Why, indeed?' murmured Holmes. ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
'Why, indeed?' murmured Holmes. ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
June 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
'You are right,' he cried, 'I am the king. Why should I attempt to conceal it?'
'Why, indeed?' murmured Holmes. ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
'Why, indeed?' murmured Holmes. ('A Scandal in Bohemia')
'Dark rumours gathered round him in the university' ('The Final Problem')
April 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
'Dark rumours gathered round him in the university' ('The Final Problem')
Being an absolutely selfish man, when a chance presented itself he did not allow either his sister's happiness or your reputation to hold his hand.' ('The Naval Treaty')
April 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Being an absolutely selfish man, when a chance presented itself he did not allow either his sister's happiness or your reputation to hold his hand.' ('The Naval Treaty')
'From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lost heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that he is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.' ('The Naval Treaty')
April 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
'From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lost heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that he is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.' ('The Naval Treaty')
'he is not a man whom I should judge to be of a particularly forgiving disposition.' ('The Devil's Foot')
March 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'he is not a man whom I should judge to be of a particularly forgiving disposition.' ('The Devil's Foot')
'But the matter is so inexplicable, and the recent turn which it has taken is so elaborate, that I shall lay it all before you, and you shall judge what is essential and what is not.' ('The Resident Patient')
March 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
'But the matter is so inexplicable, and the recent turn which it has taken is so elaborate, that I shall lay it all before you, and you shall judge what is essential and what is not.' ('The Resident Patient')
'I know that he is a pretty shrewd judge.' ('The Stockbroker's Clerk')
March 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'I know that he is a pretty shrewd judge.' ('The Stockbroker's Clerk')
'A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. ' (A Study in Scarlet)
March 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
'A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. ' (A Study in Scarlet)
'Eh, what's that, Watson? Danger, isn't it? Yes, by Jove, it's a danger signal. There he goes again!' ('The Red Circle')
March 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
'Eh, what's that, Watson? Danger, isn't it? Yes, by Jove, it's a danger signal. There he goes again!' ('The Red Circle')
'Now, you rascal, do you deny that it is a signal? Come, speak up! Who is your confederate out yonder, and what is this conspiracy that is going on?' (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
'Now, you rascal, do you deny that it is a signal? Come, speak up! Who is your confederate out yonder, and what is this conspiracy that is going on?' (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
'That is our signal,' said Holmes ('The Speckled Band')
March 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'That is our signal,' said Holmes ('The Speckled Band')
'I recognized that justice must be done' (A Study in Scarlet)
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
'I recognized that justice must be done' (A Study in Scarlet)
'So evident was the crisis in his mind that none of us dared to speak, and we sat, barrister, prisoner, and myself, watching him in a concentrated and absorbed silence.' ('The Problem of Thor Bridge')
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
'So evident was the crisis in his mind that none of us dared to speak, and we sat, barrister, prisoner, and myself, watching him in a concentrated and absorbed silence.' ('The Problem of Thor Bridge')
'If it's on the market I'll buy it - if it means another penny on the income tax.' ('The Second Stain')
March 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
'If it's on the market I'll buy it - if it means another penny on the income tax.' ('The Second Stain')
'Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case.' ('The Red Circle')
March 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
'Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case.' ('The Red Circle')
'I knew that this man Small had a certain degree of low cunning, but I did not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. That is usually a product of higher education.' (The Sign of the Four)
March 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
'I knew that this man Small had a certain degree of low cunning, but I did not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. That is usually a product of higher education.' (The Sign of the Four)
'He included us all in a sweeping bow, and stalked out of the room.' ('The Noble Bachelor')
March 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
'He included us all in a sweeping bow, and stalked out of the room.' ('The Noble Bachelor')
'Come,' said the inspector, laughing; 'it's a very pretty diversity of opinion.' ('The Engineer's Thumb')
March 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
'Come,' said the inspector, laughing; 'it's a very pretty diversity of opinion.' ('The Engineer's Thumb')
'“Cut the poetry, Watson,” said Holmes severely.' ('The Retired Colourman') #WorldPoetryDay
March 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
'“Cut the poetry, Watson,” said Holmes severely.' ('The Retired Colourman') #WorldPoetryDay
'the public works were notoriously neglected, the accounts were slurred over by bribed auditors, and the decent citizen was terrorized into paying public blackmail, and holding his tongue lest some worse thing befall him.' (The Valley of Fear)
March 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
'the public works were notoriously neglected, the accounts were slurred over by bribed auditors, and the decent citizen was terrorized into paying public blackmail, and holding his tongue lest some worse thing befall him.' (The Valley of Fear)
'He is a man of no physical courage, as they are well aware from their experience the other night.' ('The Greek Interpreter')
March 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
'He is a man of no physical courage, as they are well aware from their experience the other night.' ('The Greek Interpreter')