{"quotes":[{"text":"A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes.","author":"Stephanie Osborn","tags":["alternate-history","alternate-universe","displaced-detective","mystery","science-fiction","sherlock-holmes","the-arrival"],"id":261,"author_id":"Stephanie+Osborn"},{"text":"It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.","author":"Gillian Linscott","tags":["advice","age","experience","sherlock-holmes","wisdom"],"id":10755,"author_id":"Gillian+Linscott"},{"text":"I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. 'Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.","author":"Laurie R. King","tags":["gifts","humor","romance","sherlock-holmes"],"id":18143,"author_id":"Laurie+R.+King"},{"text":"It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous. ","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["craft","excellence","sherlock-holmes","writing"],"id":24922,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.","author":"Steve Coogan","tags":["humour","sherlock-holmes","writing"],"id":28134,"author_id":"Steve+Coogan"},{"text":"It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?' 'Who cares if you impress others?' 'Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?","author":"Ridley Pearson","tags":["middle-grade","mystery","sherlock-holmes"],"id":33350,"author_id":"Ridley+Pearson"},{"text":"You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.","author":"Laurie R. King","tags":["female","sherlock-holmes","talents"],"id":35170,"author_id":"Laurie+R.+King"},{"text":"I must apologize for calling so late,' said he, 'and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["back-garden-wall","doctor-watson","escape","late-visit","scrambling","sherlock-holmes","unconventional"],"id":51544,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. 'Watson' he says, 'look up in the sky and tell me what you see.'I see millions of stars, Holmes,' says Watson.'And what do you conclude from that, Watson?'Watson thinks for a moment. 'Well,' he says, 'astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?'Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!","author":"Thomas Cathcart","tags":["humor","plato-and-platypus","sherlock","sherlock-holmes"],"id":59113,"author_id":"Thomas+Cathcart"},{"text":"One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["arthur-conan-doyle","characters","fictional-characters","imagination","literary-fiction","sherlock-holmes"],"id":71733,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}