Sherlock Holmes And Irene Adler Quotes & Sayings

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. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The praying stopped, and Alford turned from that far near distance and walked out on to the veranda alone, thinking still of that self beyond his reach in a faraway place, as a loss, as something he had been deprived of. But how do you feel the loss of a self that you did not have to lose? How can you lose an Africa you did not know? But that was what he felt: the loss of not having had that loss to lose. — Earl Lovelace

Life is seldom about the destination, Sherlock," smiled Irene. "It's about the journey. — Melvyn Small

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way. — Jess Walter

Man, this was messed up. He'd never hear the end of it. — Sally Bradley

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. — Sarah McLachlan

It is wondrous, Will Henry," breathed the monstrumologist over the maddening hum of the flies. "I feared we might be wrong-that Socotra was not the *locus ex magnificum*. But we have found it, haven't we? And is it not wondrous?"
I agreed with him. It was wondrous. — Rick Yancey

Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird. — Colleen Gleason

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. — Emma Watson