Sherlock Holmes Deduction Quotes

“Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“We could go to Baker Street,” Kit said, without even knowing he was going to say it. “We are in London.”
Ty looked up at that, his gray eyes aglow. “To 221B Baker Street?”
― Cassandra Clare

“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.”
― Joe Riggs, The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist

“I am not responsible for your wanton level of self-imposed intelligence.

—Kari, the Valkyrie. Garden of the Dragons +”
― douglas laurent