„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
„Quite simple, my dear Watson“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„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
„In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.“
— Sigmund Freud
„My dear fellow, who will let you?""That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?“
— Ayn Rand
„I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me — and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky