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Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Possibility Two
Tagged: Good, Detective, task, Interaction, banal, Potential, Multitudes
“Nothing makes a smart man stupid like a quest for vengeance.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Details
Tagged: Smart, Stupid, Quest, Vengeance
“I am smarter than everyone I meet, Watson. I know it's bad form to say that, but in my case it's a fact.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: The Red Team
Tagged: Smart, Bad, fact, Truth
“This is a sign of an active mind. Lincoln, Einstein, Freud - all geniuses who drew inspiration from chaos in their environs. Without Andrew Fleming's reluctance to wash petrie dishes, the world wouldn't have penicillin, would it?”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Dirty Laundry
Tagged: active mind, lincoln, einstein, Freud, Genius, inspiration, Andrew Fleming, penicillin
“When you've eliminated then impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: The Leviathan
Tagged: eliminate, impossible, Improbable, Truth
“Before you say anything I would like to remind you that I am holding an axe.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: The Leviathan
Tagged: Remind, talking, axe, Threat
“Detective Marcus Bell: Yeah, tell me something I don't know.

Sherlock Holmes: A pig's orgasm lasts up to thirty minutes.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: You Do It To Yourself
Tagged: tell me something i don't know, Pig, orgasm, Long, Sassy
“Dr. Joan Watson: Can I ask you a question?

Sherlock Holmes: Can I stop you?”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Flight Risk
Tagged: Question, Ask, Stop
“Luck is an offensive, abhorrent concept. The idea that there is a force in the universe tilting events in your favor or against it is ridiculous.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Lesser Evils
Tagged: Luck, Offensive, abhorrent, idea, force, Universe, Ridiculous
“Learning to see the puzzle in everything. They're everywhere. Once you start looking, it's impossible to stop. It just so happens that people, with all the deceits and illusions that inform everything they do, tend to be the most fascinating puzzles of all.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: The Rat Race
Tagged: Puzzle, Learning, Everywhere, deceits, Illusions
“From a drop of water, a logician can infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara, without having seen or heard of either one.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Child Predator
Tagged: logician, Water, Atlantic, Niagara Falls
“Dr. Joan Watson: Hey, I found something in the hall closet the other day.

Sherlock Holmes: Was it the zipper mask, because I swear I'm just holding that for a friend.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: While You Were Sleeping
Tagged: hall closet, found, zipper mask, Friend
“Dr. Joan Watson: How did you know he had an affair?

Sherlock Holmes: Google. Not everything is deducible.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: affair, Google, Research, deductible
“Stress can ruin everyday of your life, dying can only ruin one.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Lying Detective
Tagged: Death, Stress, Misery
“Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who? Once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Lying Detective
Tagged: Suicide, self-harm, Depression
“Nothing made me. I made me.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Sometimes to solve a case, one must first solve another.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny day.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“You must forgive Watson, he has an enthusiasm for stating the obvious, which borders on mania.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote. But an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes. To put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Fear is wisdom in the face of danger, it is nothing to be ashamed of.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Good afternoon. I am Sherlock Holmes, this is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. You may speak freely in front of him, as he rarely understands a word.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“I’m not an addict, I’m a user. I alleviate boredom and occasionally heighten my thought processes.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“I’ve always known I was a man out of his time.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Superb, suicide as street theatre, murder by corpse. Lestrade, you’re spoiling us.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Careful! Some of those skulls are over two hundred thousand years old! Have a bit of respect! …Thank you!”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 1: The Blind Banker
Tagged: sherlock
“Get out. I need to go to my mind palace.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 2: The Hounds of Baskerville
Tagged: sherlock
“You can tell a good Chinese by the bottom third of the door handle.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 1: A Study in Pink
Tagged: sherlock
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