Some Sherlock Holmes Quotes

‘My name is Sherlock Holmes.  It is my business to know what other people don’t know.’
-The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
-The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 3: “The Problem”

‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
-A Scandal in Bohemia

‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’
-The Bascombe Valley Mystery

‘Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.’
-The Sign of Four Chapter 1: “The Science of Deduction”
 
‘How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?’

-The Sign of Four Chapter 6: “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration

‘…when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
-The Blanched Soldier

‘It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
-The Beryl Coronet

“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay.”
-The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

‘I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?
-The Sign of Four

‘What one man can invent another can discover.’
-The Adventure of the Dancing Man

  "Excellent!" I cried.
  "Elementary," said he.
 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
     Watson and Holmes in "The Crooked Man"