Sherlock Quotes

— Why would I be faking?
— Because you're a liar. You lie all the time, it's like your mission.
— I have been many things, John, but when have I ever been a malingerer?
— You pretended to be dead for two years!
— Apart from that.

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Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Watson

Smiling is advertising.

— I've never been very good with them.
— Babies?
— Humans.

There's no such thing as bad. Good and bad are fairytales. We have evolved to attach an emotinal significance to what is nothing more than a survival strategy of the pack animal. We are conditioned to invest divinity in utility. Good isn't really good, evil isn't really wrong, bottoms aren't really pretty. You are a prisoner of your own meat.

I'm very busy at the moment. I have to drink a cup of tea.

— I swear my wife is chanelling Satan!
— Yes, boring, go away.
— I'm not chanelling Satan.
— Why not? Given you immediate alternative.

Sherlock and the clients

— So, that's it, is it? You're just going?
— Well, don't worry, there's a place for people like you, the desperate, the terrified. The once with nowhere else to run.
— What place?
— 221B Baker Street.

Time being something of which we don't have an infinite supply.

— Oh! Have you had sex?
— Why do you ask?
— The music. I've had sex.
— How?
— One of the nurses got careless. I liked it. Messy, though. People are so breakable.
— I take it he didn't consent.
— He?
— She?
— Afraid I didn't notice in the heat of the moment.

Taking your own life. Interesting expression. Taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. You know, death, it's something happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keeps your hands off it.

— What about a name?
— Catharine.
— Oh, yeah, we've gone off that.
— Have we?
— Yeah.
— Oh.
— Well, you know what I think.
— It's not a girl's name.

Sherlock wants the Watsons ' daughter to be named after him.

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Mrs. Hudson

Mary Morsten (Watson)

Happiness is a pop song. Sadness is a poem

— Doctor Watson, why did he do that to me? That was insane!
— Er... yes, well, someone convinced him that you wouldn't tell the truth unless you were actually wetting yourself.
— Someone?
— Probably me.