Sherlock – Series Quotes [Season 2, Episode 3]

Molly, please don't feel the need to make conversation, it's really not your area.

You want me to shake hands with you in hell? I shall not disappoint you.

— James Moriarty is for hire.
— A tradesman?
— Yes.
— But not the sort who'd fix your heating?
— No, the sort who'd plat a bomb or stage an assassination. But I'm sure he'd make a decent job of your boiler.

— A small token of our gratitude.
— Diamond cufflinks... All my cuffs have buttons.
— He means "thank you".
— Do I?
— Just say it.
— Thank you.

Don't let it get to you, I always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. In fact, so do most people.

That's your weakness. You always want everything to be clever.

Do you think you could survive for just a few minutes without showing off?

That's what you do when you sell a big lie, you wrap it up in the truth to make it more palatable.

The press will turn, Sherlock, they always turn and they'll turn on you.

— Too much history between us, John. Old scores, resentments.
— Nicked all his Smurfs? Broke his Action Man?

— I know what that means, looking sad when you think no-one can see you.
— You can see me.
— I don't count.

— They're coming back. That's six minutes.
— Surprised it took them that long, to be honest.
— There's a queue for the loo!

— How would you describe this man, his character?
— First mistake. James Moriarty isn't a man at all. He's a spider. A spider at the centre of a web, a criminal web with a thousand threads and he knows precisely how each and every single one of them dances.

— Tell you what you already know?
— No, prove that you know it.

— Right then, the professionals are finished. If the amateurs want to go in and have their turn.
— Now remember, she's in shock and she's just seven years old, so anything you can do to...
— Not be myself?
— Yeah, might be helpful.

— Those digits are meaningless. They're utterly meaningless. You don't really think a couple of lines of computer code are going to crash the world around our ears? I'm disappointed in you, ordinary Sherlock.
— But the rhythm...
— Partita no 1! Thank you Johann Sebastian Bach.