“I am the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant, and all-round obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the misfortune to meet. I am dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful, and uncomprehending in the face of the happy. So if I didn't understand I was being asked to be best man, it is because I never expected to be anybody's best friend.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 3, Episode 2: The Sign of Three, 2014
“The world is woven from billions of lives, every strand crossing every other. What we call premonition is just movement of the web. If you could attenuate to every strand of quivering data, the future would be entirely calculable, as inevitable as mathematics.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 3, Episode 2: The Sign of Three, 2014
“You're not haunted by the war, Dr. Watson. You miss it.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink, 2010
“I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 3: The Reichenbach Fall, 2012
“Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.” — Jim Moriarty · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012
“Brainy is the new sexy.” — Irene Adler · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012