Quotes to inspire and reflect

‘Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’

‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity … is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

‘Excellent,’ I cried. ‘Elementary,’ said he. often misquoted as, ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’, a remark attributed to Sherlock Holmes, but not found in this form in any book by Arthur Conan Doyle, first found in P.G. Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1915)

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

The giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

John Donne, Anne Donne, Un-done.

Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

No man is an Island, entire of it self.

But I do nothing upon my self, and yet I am mine own Executioner.

I have done one braver thing

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.

I am two fools, I know,

This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

Busy old fool, unruly sun,

Go, and catch a falling star,

I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost,

And now good morrow to our waking souls,

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Come live with me, and be my love,

All other things, to their destruction draw,

Reach her, about must, and about must go.

Air and angels.

On a huge hill,

Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,

Take me to you, imprison me, for I

Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,

License my roving hands, and let them go,

New philosophy calls all in doubt.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget.

Never complain and never explain.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

All power is a trust.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.