Carina Pereira, born in ‘87, in Portugal. Moved to Belgium in 2011, and to Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2019.
Avid reader, changing interests as the mods strikes. Whiles away the time by improvising stand-up routines she’ll never get to perform. Books are a life-long affair, audiobooks a life-changing discovery of adulthood. Selling books by day, writer by night.
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Sherlock Holmes is one of the most well-known literary characters, and while “Elementary, my dear Watson” is his most famous piece of dialogue, this specific phrase was not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, nor is it featured in any of the books. One of the first times this dialogue, as it is, appeared, was in P.G. Wodehouse’s book, Psmith, Journalist, and it has since been commonly used in many movies. Here are a few Sherlock Holmes quotes, however, written by the hand of Arthur Conan Doyle, which we can find in the tales of the famous boffin.
“Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
“’It’s quite exciting,’ said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.”
“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.”
“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.”
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
“But it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
“There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.”
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
“A strange enigma is man.”
