The Best of Sherlock Holmes

 

Quotations by Conan Doyle & Contemporaries

(sorted by growth rate since 12th edition)

 

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      1891 1914 1937 1948 1955 1968 1980 1992 since 12 since 12 since 11
B D Contributor 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Avg growth growth
1832 1898 Carroll, Lewis 0 8 27 27 79 75 76 76 67 181% 181%
1835 1910 Twain, Mark 0 10 40 40 116 113 119 82 94 105% 105%
1859 1930 Doyle, A.C. (1) 0 0 4 10 10 12 13 18 13 80% 350%
1812 1870 Dickens, Charles 11 21 104 104 117 110 134 129 119 24% 24%
1854 1900 Wilde, Oscar 0 8 52 52 58 57 54 48 54 -8% -8%
1856 1950 Shaw, George B. 0 6 48 48 59 52 52 44 51 -8% -8%
1863 1952 Santayana, George 0 0 25 25 23 20 29 23 24 -8% -8%
1850 1894 Stevenson, Robert L. 0 12 65 65 76 57 55 47 60 -28% -28%
1866 1946 Wells, H.G. 0 0 8 17 15 15 15 12 15 -29% 50%
1857 1924 Conrad, Joseph 0 0 41 41 41 29 29 23 33 -44% -44%
1865 1936 Kipling, Rudyard 0 24 211 211 180 123 97 80 138 -62% -62%
1874 1936 Chesterton, G.K. 0 0 37 41 31 24 16 13 25 -68% -65%
1862 1910 Henry, O. 0 0 13 45 42 19 13 11 26 -76% -15%
1893 1957 Sayers, Dorothy 0 0 2 15 2 0 1 1 4 -93% -50%
1856 1919 Baum, L. Frank 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 1 nm nm
1865 1947 Orczy, Baroness 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 nm nm
1888 1959 Chandler, Raymond 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 nm nm
1890 1976 Christie, Agatha 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 5 3 nm nm
                           
    TOTALS 11 89 677 742 850 709 714 619 727 -17% -9%
                           
1859 1930 Doyle, A.C. (2) 0 0 6 12 12 13 14 18 14 50% 200%
1859 1930 Doyle, A.C. (3) 0 0 13 19 17 15 16 18 17 -5% 38%

 

Notes:

Table is based on citations in Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett for the 9th - 16th editions (1891 - 1992). Bartlett ascribes all passages from the Sherlock Holmes stories to Conan Doyle. The tallies in the main table reflect primary references and do not include items that appear in footnotes to quotations by other people.

 

(1) ACD note: Counts quotations from Sherlock Holmes stories (no footnote references).

 

(2) ACD note: Counts quotations from Sherlock Holmes stories, including footnote references.

 

(3) ACD note: Counts all quotations ascribed to Conan Doyle, including footnote references.

 

Additional details are provided in the monograph "Quoting Sherlock Holmes: Some Observations on the Most Popular Passages" by Randall Stock.

 

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Definitions

 

Avg since 12: the arithmetic mean from tallies for the 12th - 16th editions

 

Growth since 12: the percentage change between the 12th and 16th editions

 

Growth since 11: the percentage change between the 11th and 16th editions

 

nm: not meaningful, zero or one as basis

 

 


 

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