Sir arthur conan doyle sherlock holmes quotes

See also: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Sherlock (TV series)

This page is for quotations from the Sherlock Holmes series of stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Quotes

Page numbers refer to The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (1981) ISBN 0713914440

A Study in Scarlet (1887)

• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.

  Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought

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    Watson, in Part 1, chap. 1, p. 15

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