'You have ill-used us — you have tortured us — now you have murdered one of us, and you would do the same to me. You are a coward, a monster, a man fit only for the gallows!' ('The Speckled Band')

'the monster goes safe.' ('Wisteria Lodge')

'I'll tell you, Watson. He is the king of all the blackmailers.' ('Charles Augustus Milverton')

'The king may do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly wronged.' ('A Scandal in Bohemia')

'You are right,' he cried, 'I am the king. Why should I attempt to conceal it?' 'Why, indeed?' murmured Holmes. ('A Scandal in Bohemia')

'Dark rumours gathered round him in the university' ('The Final Problem')

Being an absolutely selfish man, when a chance presented itself he did not allow either his sister's happiness or your reputation to hold his hand.' ('The Naval Treaty')

'From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lost heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that he is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.' ('The Naval Treaty')

'he is not a man whom I should judge to be of a particularly forgiving disposition.' ('The Devil's Foot')

'But the matter is so inexplicable, and the recent turn which it has taken is so elaborate, that I shall lay it all before you, and you shall judge what is essential and what is not.' ('The Resident Patient')

'I know that he is a pretty shrewd judge.' ('The Stockbroker's Clerk')

'A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. ' (A Study in Scarlet)

'Eh, what's that, Watson? Danger, isn't it? Yes, by Jove, it's a danger signal. There he goes again!' ('The Red Circle')

'Now, you rascal, do you deny that it is a signal? Come, speak up! Who is your confederate out yonder, and what is this conspiracy that is going on?' (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

'That is our signal,' said Holmes ('The Speckled Band')

'I recognized that justice must be done' (A Study in Scarlet)

'So evident was the crisis in his mind that none of us dared to speak, and we sat, barrister, prisoner, and myself, watching him in a concentrated and absorbed silence.' ('The Problem of Thor Bridge')

'If it's on the market I'll buy it - if it means another penny on the income tax.' ('The Second Stain')

'Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case.' ('The Red Circle')

'I knew that this man Small had a certain degree of low cunning, but I did not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. That is usually a product of higher education.' (The Sign of the Four)

'He included us all in a sweeping bow, and stalked out of the room.' ('The Noble Bachelor')

'Come,' said the inspector, laughing; 'it's a very pretty diversity of opinion.' ('The Engineer's Thumb')

'“Cut the poetry, Watson,” said Holmes severely.' ('The Retired Colourman') #WorldPoetryDay

'the public works were notoriously neglected, the accounts were slurred over by bribed auditors, and the decent citizen was terrorized into paying public blackmail, and holding his tongue lest some worse thing befall him.' (The Valley of Fear)

'He is a man of no physical courage, as they are well aware from their experience the other night.' ('The Greek Interpreter')

'Strange rumours began to be bandied about—rumours of murdered immigrants and rifled camps in regions' (A Study in Scarlet)

'This was evidently no ordinary party of immigrants, but rather some nomad people who had been compelled from stress of circumstances to seek themselves a new country.' (A Study in Scarlet)

By Vachel Lindsay (for #PiDay)

'There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government, but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.' ('The Bruce-Partington Plans')

'You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.' (The Sign of the Four) #PiDay