When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder
Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.” ~Sherlock Holmes
I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.
Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
Sherlock Holmes: [to Watson] Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
[on Moriarty] Irene Adler: Please don't underestimate him. He's just as brilliant as you are. And infinitely more devious. Sherlock Holmes: We'll see about that.
Sherlock Holmes: First, the world will see you for what you are: a fraud. Then you'll be hanged - properly, this time. Lord Blackwood: It's a long journey from here to the rope.
Sherlock Holmes: Go along now. I won't be chasing you anymore. Fare thee well. Irene Adler: I don't wanna run, anymore.
Sherlock Holmes: [after they finish a short waltz] Who taught you to dance like that? Dr. John Watson: [with a smile of reminiscence] You did.
Dr. John Watson: Oh, how I've missed you, Holmes. Sherlock Holmes: Have you? Why? I've barely noticed your absence.
[from trailer] Dr. John Watson: [seeing Holmes's drag outfit] What? Sherlock Holmes: I agree it's not my best disguise.
Sherlock Holmes: [referring to Moriarty] If we can stop him, we shall prevent the collapse of Western civilization... No pressure.
Sherlock Holmes: [to Moriarity] My horror at your crimes is matched only by my admiratio of the skill it took to achieve them.
Sherlock Holmes: You have the supply, new you require the demand. A war with everyone... a world war.
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
