“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men.

In the end, everything is a gag.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!