26 Quotes From Sherlock That Will Get You So Excited For Its January Return

“Dear God. What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.”

— Steven Moffat, John Watson, Martin Freeman, imdb.com

“Anderson, don’t talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“You can tell a good Chinese by the bottom third of the door handle.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.”

— Stephen Thompson, Jim Moriarty, Andrew Scott, imdb.com

“I’m not a psychopath, Anderson, I’m a high functioning sociopath. Do your research.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity.”

— Steven Moffat, Mycroft Holmes, Mark Gatiss, imdb.com

“Brainy is the new sexy.”

— Steven Moffat, Irene Adler, Lara Pulver, imdb.com

“Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator.”

— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“There is a mute button and I will use it.”

— Steven Moffat, John Watson, Martin Freeman, imdb.com

“Get out. I need to go to my mind palace.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Careful! Some of those skulls are over two hundred thousand years old! Have a bit of respect! …Thank you!”

— Stephen Thompson, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Superb, suicide as street theatre, murder by corpse. Lestrade, you’re spoiling us.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Nobody deceives like an addict.”

— Mark Gatiss, Mycroft Holmes, Mark Gatiss, imdb.com

“I’m a story-teller, I know when I’m in one.”

— Mark Gatiss, John Watson, Martin Freeman, imdb.com

“It is no easy thing for a great mind to contemplate a still greater one.”

— Mark Gatiss, Mycroft Holmes, Mark Gatiss, imdb.com

“I’ve always known I was a man out of his time.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“I’m not an addict, I’m a user. I alleviate boredom and occasionally heighten my thought processes.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Good afternoon. I am Sherlock Holmes, this is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. You may speak freely in front of him, as he rarely understands a word.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Fear is wisdom in the face of danger, it is nothing to be ashamed of.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote. But…”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“You must forgive Watson, he has an enthusiasm for stating the obvious, which borders on mania.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny day.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Sometimes to solve a case, one must first solve another.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Nothing made me. I made me.”

— Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com