“I always hear 'punch me in the face' when you're speaking, but it's usually subtext.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012
“You've been so alone. And you think that's the price of being extraordinary. And maybe it is. But you've been paying it so long.” — Molly Hooper · BBC Sherlock, Series 4, Episode 3: The Final Problem, 2017
“Sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side.” — Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012
“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