Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Sherlock Holmes: Stress can ruin every day of your life. Dying can only ruin one.

Sherlock Holmes (about Smith): That creature, that rotting thing is a living, breathing coagulation of human evil. And if the only thing I ever do in this world is drive him out of it, then my life will not have been wasted.

Sherlock Holmes: Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Once more! Or close the wall up with our English dead! Set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide! Hold hard the breath and build up every spirit to his full height! On! On, you noblest English whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! And you, good yeoman, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture. Which I doubt not for there is none of you here so mean and base that hath not noble lustre in your eyes! I see you standing like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start! The game’s afoot. (Shakespeare)

Sherlock Holmes: 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.

Faith Smith: Are we going to walk all night?

Sherlock Holmes: Possibly. It’s a long word.

Faith Smith: What is?

Sherlock Holmes: “Bollocks”.