Watching the 1964 series with Douglas Wilmer as Holmes

Pop-culture confusion is that SH is an wealthy middle aged guy with an elderly overweight befuddled roommate in a checked cape & deerstalker... Actually when we meet the pair they are in their 20's... more

Pop-culture confusion is that SH is an wealthy middle aged guy with an elderly overweight befuddled roommate in a checked cape & deerstalker... Actually when we meet the pair they are in their 20's poor enough to need a roommate and more likely to wear top hat and frock coat.

Following Holmes' "Death" in 1891 not only was public outcry so great that A.C.D. would bring the character back, but the Public shock & grief extended to young businessmen in London worn black... more

Following Holmes' "Death" in 1891 not only was public outcry so great that A.C.D. would bring the character back, but the Public shock & grief extended to young businessmen in London worn black armbands in mourning.

(Without Moriarty ) "I must deal with Pygmies of Triviality!"

Colonel... I don't think I have had the pleasure of seeing you since you favored me with those attentions as I lay on the ledge above the Reichenbach fall.

"It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult."

Guy: Don't waste my time! If you're going to catch the man, catch him! And let me know the second you do! Sherlock: Certainly. (locks the door) I've caught him.

Just finished The Red-Headed League. Is that where the phrase ' red herring' comes from?

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired... more

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you begin filming season 3 now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

"It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."

You are a Consulting Detective... So, consult.

"Three days of absolute fast does not improve one's beauty, Watson."

'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.'

There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.

"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains....It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."

"Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!" Gah, don't say it like that.

Watson: Don't worry. He'd never commit suicide. He loves himself too much.

"It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear... more

"It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."

"...the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside."

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?"

"Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic."

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

"Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H.

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.