The Return of Sherlock Holmes Quotes
Sherlock Holmes: The measurements obviously refer to some exact spot to which the rest of the document alludes. We are given two guides.
Dr. Watson: Yes, an elm and an oak.
Sherlock Holmes: [pointing to a spot outside the window] And, gentlemen, there is a patriarch among oaks.
Dr. Watson: Yes, an elm and an oak.
Sherlock Holmes: [pointing to a spot outside the window] And, gentlemen, there is a patriarch among oaks.
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Sherlock Holmes: The situation is desperate... but not hopeless.
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Sherlock Holmes: There can, I think, be no doubt, gentlemen, that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts.
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Sherlock Holmes: This is a trifle, of course, Watson, but there's nothing so important as trifles.
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Sherlock Holmes: Watson, may I occupy your couch for a few hours?
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Sherlock Holmes: You are like my friend Watson who has the bad habit of telling his stories wrong-end foremost.
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Sir Reginald Musgrave: But you, you, I have noted, are still turning to practical ends those powers with which you used to amaze us at college.
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, I'm still living by my wits. And how is the dear wife?
Sir Reginald Musgrave: I'm not married, Holmes.
[Awkward silence]
Sherlock Holmes: How wise!
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, I'm still living by my wits. And how is the dear wife?
Sir Reginald Musgrave: I'm not married, Holmes.
[Awkward silence]
Sherlock Holmes: How wise!
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Dr. Watson: If you feel so uncharitable, why'd you accept his invitation?
Sherlock Holmes: To escape my lethargy. And your constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street.
Dr. Watson: Huh. Hardly constant.
Sherlock Holmes: To escape my lethargy. And your constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street.
Dr. Watson: Huh. Hardly constant.
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Dr. Watson: Have a humbug, Lestrade.
Sherlock Holmes: Watson, this is no time for humbugs!
Sherlock Holmes: Watson, this is no time for humbugs!
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Inspector Lestrade: [Lestrade speaks slowly, deliberately, and sincerely without his usual arrogance] I've seen you handle a good many cases in my time, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than this.
[Holmes beams with pride]
Inspector Lestrade: We're not jealous of you, you know, at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we're proud of you.
[Holmes seems startled by this revelation]
Inspector Lestrade: And if you come down tomorrow, there's not a man from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable... who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand.
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you!
[Then quietly and softly with uncharacteristic humility]
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you.
[Holmes beams with pride]
Inspector Lestrade: We're not jealous of you, you know, at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we're proud of you.
[Holmes seems startled by this revelation]
Inspector Lestrade: And if you come down tomorrow, there's not a man from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable... who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand.
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you!
[Then quietly and softly with uncharacteristic humility]
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you.
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Inspector Gregory: Is there any other point to which you wish to draw my attention, Mr. Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Colonel Ross: But the dog did nothing in the night-time.
Sherlock Holmes: That is the curious incident.
Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Colonel Ross: But the dog did nothing in the night-time.
Sherlock Holmes: That is the curious incident.
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Sherlock Holmes: [to Lestrade] You seem to want some unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, you know.
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Sherlock Holmes: You went to the vicarage, and you waited there for some time.
Dr. Leon Sterndale: How do you know that?
Sherlock Holmes: I followed you.
Dr. Leon Sterndale: I saw no one!
Sherlock Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when *I* follow you!
Dr. Leon Sterndale: How do you know that?
Sherlock Holmes: I followed you.
Dr. Leon Sterndale: I saw no one!
Sherlock Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when *I* follow you!
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Sherlock Holmes: I dare call nothing trivial, Lestrade. Some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
Dr. Watson: Yeah. That dreadful business of the Abernetty family.
Sherlock Holmes: Yah! Woo.
Inspector Lestrade: I'd hardly call the dismemberment of an entire family trivial.
[Watson laughs]
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, Watson, would you be so kind as to explain?
Dr. Watson: What? Oh, uh, the point is that, um, it only came to Holmes's notice because of the depth to which the parsley had sunk into the butter on a hot day.
Dr. Watson: Yeah. That dreadful business of the Abernetty family.
Sherlock Holmes: Yah! Woo.
Inspector Lestrade: I'd hardly call the dismemberment of an entire family trivial.
[Watson laughs]
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, Watson, would you be so kind as to explain?
Dr. Watson: What? Oh, uh, the point is that, um, it only came to Holmes's notice because of the depth to which the parsley had sunk into the butter on a hot day.
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Sherlock Holmes: [Reading a letter] It's from my brother Mycroft. He writes like a drunken crab. [to Watson]
Sherlock Holmes: You'd better read it. Doctors are more used to hieroglyphics than normal human beings.
Sherlock Holmes: You'd better read it. Doctors are more used to hieroglyphics than normal human beings.
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Sherlock Holmes: There's no sign of the bullet.
Mrs. Hudson: Oh! Excuse me, sir. Er, a moment, if you please?
Sherlock Holmes: What is it?
[she thrusts her tray into his hands and reaches into her pocket]
Mrs. Hudson: I have it here. I picked it up off the carpet.
Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Hudson, you are becoming indispensable.
Mrs. Hudson: Oh! Excuse me, sir. Er, a moment, if you please?
Sherlock Holmes: What is it?
[she thrusts her tray into his hands and reaches into her pocket]
Mrs. Hudson: I have it here. I picked it up off the carpet.
Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Hudson, you are becoming indispensable.
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Sherlock Holmes: [In a depressive stone as he stares at an old grave marker overlooking the sea] Weather-pitted slabs of granite, ancient tombs scattered throughout the length and breadth of this peninsula.
Dr. John Watson: Like the sea, I suppose, death is always with us.
Sherlock Holmes: [Holmes stares intently at Watson before answering] Quite so.
Dr. John Watson: Like the sea, I suppose, death is always with us.
Sherlock Holmes: [Holmes stares intently at Watson before answering] Quite so.
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Sherlock Holmes: I would be grateful, Lestrade, if you could make it convenient to come around to Baker Street at six o'clock this evening. Until then I would like to keep this photograph found in the dead man's pocket.
Inspector Lestrade: Ah, Mr. Holmes, that might be a vital clue.
Sherlock Holmes: I trust it is; otherwise it's of no interest to me.
Inspector Lestrade: Ah, Mr. Holmes, that might be a vital clue.
Sherlock Holmes: I trust it is; otherwise it's of no interest to me.
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Sherlock Holmes: [In obvious pain from his drug withdrawal, he coughs] To work the brain without sufficient material is like racing an engine - it cracks itself to pieces.
[He takes a deep breath]
Sherlock Holmes: Wait for me at the cottage.
Dr Watson: Where are you going?
Sherlock Holmes: Cheer up, Watson. Sea air, sunshine, patience!
[He throws the blanket over his shoulder with characteristic flourish]
Sherlock Holmes: All will be revealed!
[He takes a deep breath]
Sherlock Holmes: Wait for me at the cottage.
Dr Watson: Where are you going?
Sherlock Holmes: Cheer up, Watson. Sea air, sunshine, patience!
[He throws the blanket over his shoulder with characteristic flourish]
Sherlock Holmes: All will be revealed!
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Sherlock Holmes: There's no sign of the bullet.
Mrs. Hudson: Oh! Excuse me, sir. Er, a moment, if you please?
Sherlock Holmes: What is it? [she thrusts her tray into his hands and reaches into her pocket]
Mrs. Hudson: I have it here. I picked it up off the carpet.
Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Hudson, you are becoming indispensable.
Mrs. Hudson: Oh! Excuse me, sir. Er, a moment, if you please?
Sherlock Holmes: What is it? [she thrusts her tray into his hands and reaches into her pocket]
Mrs. Hudson: I have it here. I picked it up off the carpet.
Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Hudson, you are becoming indispensable.
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[Holmes is testing out a theory by putting a poison in a lamp, leaving himself and Watson to inhale the fumes]
[the drug induces a nonsensical but disturbing series of images and distorted memories in Holmes's mind; the images stop and he is outside on the ground]
Dr. John Watson: Holmes! Holmes! HOLMES!
[Holmes screams]
Dr. John Watson: Holmes! HOLMES!
[Watson has to shout over Holmes's screaming]
Dr. John Watson: Can you hear me? For God's sake, can you hear me?
Sherlock Holmes: JOHN!
Dr. John Watson: Thank God you're alright! That was a stupid and dangerous thing to do... We could have been killed!
Sherlock Holmes: It was an unjustified experiment even for myself... Doubly so for a friend. I really am extremely sorry.
[the drug induces a nonsensical but disturbing series of images and distorted memories in Holmes's mind; the images stop and he is outside on the ground]
Dr. John Watson: Holmes! Holmes! HOLMES!
[Holmes screams]
Dr. John Watson: Holmes! HOLMES!
[Watson has to shout over Holmes's screaming]
Dr. John Watson: Can you hear me? For God's sake, can you hear me?
Sherlock Holmes: JOHN!
Dr. John Watson: Thank God you're alright! That was a stupid and dangerous thing to do... We could have been killed!
Sherlock Holmes: It was an unjustified experiment even for myself... Doubly so for a friend. I really am extremely sorry.
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