There’s nothing elementary about it, my dear Watson. And does a rose by any other name really smell as sweet? The ten literary quotations below have passed into common parlance because they ...

One of the most well-known examples of all falls into this latter category: "Elementary, my dear Watson," the signature phrase indelibly associated with Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective ...

Gillette, who had a genius for pleasing the public, introduced the curved pipe and the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson.” He hyped the love interest and jump-started the career of young ...