„I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle
„I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?""No, indeed!""You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged.""My dear fellow! I congrat-""To Milverton's housemaid.""My dear Holmes!""I wanted information, Watson.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me“
— Walt Whitman
„But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method — a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!“
— Agatha Christie
„This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.“
— Dorothy Parker
„May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.“
— Emily Brontë
„The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.“
— Albert Einstein