“But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.”
—The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
“We want overcoats and cravats and goulashes, and every aid that man ever invented to fight the weather.”
—The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
“I assure you, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case.”
—The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
—The Sign of Four
