Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Forty-Seven|| The one where you're Sherlocked

Category: I thought it was time to call upon the consulting detective. In other words, quotes from the BBC series Sherlock.

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you've seen all seasons and episodes.

      

1. "I'm a consulting detective. The only one in the world. I invented the job." -Sherlock

     

2. Sherlock: Shut up.

Detective Inspector Lestrade: I didn't say anyth—

Sherlock: You were thinking. It's annoying.

    

3. "What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring." -Sherlock

     

4. "That's clever. Is it clever? Why is it clever?" -Sherlock

   

5. Sherlock: Did he offer you money to spy on me?

John: Yes.

Sherlock: Did you take it?

John: ...No?

Sherlock: Pity, we could've split the fee. Think it through next time.

       

6. "I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." -Sherlock

     

7. "Shut up everybody, shut up! Don't move, don't speak, don't breathe, I'm trying to think. Anderson, face the other way, you're putting me off." -Sherlock

     

8. "Anderson, don't talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street." -Sherlock

     

9. "I'm in shock! Look, I've got a blanket." -Sherlock

       

10. "Good evening, Mycroft. Try not to start a war before I get home, you know what it does for the traffic." -Sherlock

      

11. [when Sherlock is not answering the door] "Okay, I'm Sherlock Holmes and I always work alone, because no one else can compete with my massive intellect!" -John Watson

     

12. Sherlock: See you've written up the taxi driver case.

John: Uhm, yes.

Sherlock: 'A Study In Pink'. Nice.

John: Well, you know. A pink lady, pink case, pink phone. There was a lot of pink. Did you like it?

Sherlock: Ummmm, no!

John: Why not? I thought you'd be flattered.

Sherlock: Flattered? "Sherlock sees through everything and everyone in seconds. What's incredible, though, is how spectacularly ignorant he is about some things."

John: Now hang on a minute, I didn't mean that--

Sherlock : [sarcastic] Oh, you meant spectacularly ignorant in a nice way! Look, it doesn't matter to me who's Prime Minister, or who's sleeping with whom--

John: [somewhat bitterly] Or that the earth goes around the sun.

Sherlock: Oh God, that again! It's not important!