Elementary Sherlock Quotes

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Elementary, my dear Watson." "That's a misquotation, by the way," I countered without thinking. Which might've made more of an impact if I'd stopped grinning like a cretin. "See? Ten minutes and you already know I read Sherlock Holmes. Just imagine what you could discover if we went out on a real date.

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

I’m told that Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson” (at least in the Arthur Conan Doyle books) Jimmy Cagney never said, “You dirty rat”; and Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam.” But they might as well have, because these apocrypha have firmly insinuated themselves into popular culture.

Incredible,” said Constable Dawes. “Impossible,” said Sergeant Michaels. “Elementary,” said my professor with a grin.

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. "It

Sherlock: They came out of EROC with $33 million dollars in small bills. They loaded their haul into an ambulance, American-made, in the late '90s. They haven't been gone more than an hour. Joan: The driver has a lazy eye, the other two met in basketball camp and one has canine lupus. You see how it feels? Just tell me how you know. Elementary Season 1 Snow Angels

The word that best describes my friend is petite. The second best would be pretty.

You probably know what Sherlock Holmes had to say about inference, the most famous thing he ever said that wasn’t “Elementary!”: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Doesn’t that sound cool, reasonable, indisputable? But it doesn’t tell the whole story. What Sherlock Holmes should have said was: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn’t occur to you to consider.” Less pithy, more correct. The

It is really quite simple. Elementary, in fact?

Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth.

Imagination?’ said Holmes with some annoyance. ‘And are the mere facts not sufficient in themselves? Must they be dressed up with French phrases dimly remembered from one’s distant schooldays and hurriedly – though all too often inadequately – checked with an elementary grammar before dispatch to the publisher?