Words matter. These are the best Sherlock Holmes Quotes from famous people such as Frederick Buechner, Mark Gatiss, Sam Kean, Emilia Fox, Jeffery Deaver, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
The thing is, horror is a big part of ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there’s a lot more horror in ‘Holmes’ that people possibly think of. There’s a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.
Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I’ll read anything anyone gives me.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Isn’t it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
I love Sherlock Holmes. There’s still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn’t it? You’re just asking questions: ‘Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?’ You’re being Sherlock Holmes.
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
Whenever I go to England, I’m on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that’s where Sherlock Holmes retired.
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he’d come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books.
When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
You don’t need a brilliant sleuth like Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the claims of Trump-Russia collusion were false. The bumbling Inspector Clouseau could have figured it out.
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ I’ve seen every single British detective show ever made.
As a complete score, I love ‘Sherlock Holmes’ – but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part – a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes.
I think there’s part of me that’s longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.
I thought working in other universes that had a lot of history – and I had personal affection for, like ‘Sherlock Holmes’ or the ‘X-Men’ movies – would prepare me for it. But the truth is, there is nothing and has never been anything like ‘Star Wars.’
Unlike other enduring characters such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ or ‘Tarzan,’ being the ‘Doctor’ allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.
In other people’s books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from ‘The Hunger Games.’ And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.
Why would you envy a man who doesn’t know the names of all the planets, is a ‘high functioning’ sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.
There’s something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you’re an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
If people ask, ‘Are you Sherlock Holmes?’, it’s horribly naff, but I say, ‘I’m not, I just look a bit like him’ – which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don’t share!
