1. She has flown to tea as an agitated woman will. (CROO)

  2. I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. (DEVI)

  3. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. (HOUN)

  4. Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire du coeur. (IDEN)

  5. When a woman has been seriously wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom is a broken bell wire. (IDEN)

  6. Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offense might rankle. (ILLU)

  7. One of the most dangerous classes in the world is the drifting and friendless woman. (LADY)

  8. I value a woman's instinct in such matters. (LION)

  9. My brain has always governed my heart. (LION)

  10. It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, Watson, the impression usually goes through - a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. (MISS)

  11. A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. (MUSG)

  12. Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. (NOBL)

  13. When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most. . . A married woman grabs at her baby - an unmarried one reaches for her jewel box. (SCAN)

  14. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. (SCAN)

  15. She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. (SCAN)

  16. Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department. (SECO)

  17. And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable . . . Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs. (SECO)

  18. Women are never to be entirely trusted - not the best of them. (SIGN)

  19. Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment. (SIGN)

  20. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. (SIGN)

  21. It is part of the settled order of nature that such a girl should have followers. (SOLI)

  22. This may be some trifling intrigue and I cannot break my other important research for the sake of it. (SOLI)

  23. I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. (TWIS)

  24. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind. (VALL)

  25. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. (VALL)

  26. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come. (WIST)

  27. How quick a woman's instinct is to find it out. (3GAB)

  28. This woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. (ENGR)
    (I know, this comes from Victor Hatherley, not from Sherlock Holmes, but the quote is too good to pass up)
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