Dr Watson Quotes

• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Learning, Sight

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• The fair sex is your department.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sex, Department, Fairs

  "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)

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• You see, but you do not observe.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Curiosity, Statistics, Detectives

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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• There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Book, Sunshine

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1443, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  Kinky Friedman

  Important, Drs, Holmes

  "Kinky Friedman calls Chris Christie and Jerry Jones gay on ESPN, host apologizes for comments" by Joshua Fechter, www.sfgate.com. January 8, 2015.

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• It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Truth, Philosophy

  "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (1892).

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• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Friendship, Falling In Love, War

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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• If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Drs, May

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• Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Simplicity, Drs, Holmes

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• Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Drs, May

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• One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Nature, Waiting

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• The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.

  Joe Navarro

  People, Drs, Detectives

  Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins (2009). “What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

  A. A. Gill

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Law, Energy

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.51, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.

  Steven Moffat

  Falling In Love, War, Hero

  "PBS restarts beloved franchise with 'Sherlock'" by Dave Walker, www.nola.com. October 24, 2010.

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