Scandal: A Novel

“You see, but you do not observe.””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“I am lost without my Boswell.””

— Unknown

“In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.””

— Unknown

“Never theorize before you have data.Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.-Sherlock holmes””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“I love and am loved by a better man than he.””

— Unknown

“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 woman.””

— Unknown