Mycroft Holmes – Character Quotes

— The flight of the dead.
— Plane blows up midair, mission accomplished for the terrorists, hundreds of casualties, but nobody dies.
— Neat, don't you think?

— Smoking indoors, isn't there one of those... One of those law things?
— We're in a morgue. There's only so much damage you can do.

— My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?
— I don't know.
— Neither do I. But, initially, he wanted to be a pirate.

— I imagine you'd like to sleep on it.
— Thank you, yes.
— Too bad.

— I'll be mother.
— And there is a whole childhood in a nutshell.

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

— I can put maximum surveillance on her.
— Why bother? You can follow her in Twitter. I believe her user name is the Whip Hand.

— Don't be alarmed. It's to do with sex.
— Sex doesn't alarm me.
— How would you know?

She recently ended the marriage of a prominent novelist by haveng an affair with both participants separately.

— Just once, can you two behave like grown-ups?
— We solve crimes, I blog about it, and he forgets his pants. I wouldn't hold out too much hope.

— You don't seem very afraid.
— You don't seem very frightening.