Quotes from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.'
'I shall be delighted.'
'You don't mind breaking the law?'
'Not in the least.'
'Nor running a chance of arrest?'
'Not in a good cause.'
'Oh, the cause is excellent!'
'Then I am your man.'
'I was sure that I might rely on you.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“I am lost without my Boswell.

[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex…there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“I love and am loved by a better man than he.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient(for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered door...I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problems.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“Bohemya Krallığı'nı tehdit eden büyük bir skandalın ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kadının zekasına yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kadınların zekasıyla ilgili espriler yaptığını duymadım. Ayrıca Irene Adler'den veya fotoğrafından her zaman övgüyle söz etti.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“Never theorize before you have data.Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
-Sherlock holmes”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

“Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l’ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

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