Sherlock Holmes quotes from Elementary

Sherlock Holmes

I used to imagine that a relapse would be the climax to some grand drama. Now I think that if I were to use drugs again, it would in fact be an anticlimax. It would be a surrender to the incessant drip, drip, drip of existence.

Sherlock Holmes

Thank you. You've been most helpful. You're free to resume your life of tedium and petty deception.

Sherlock Holmes

[disrupts a board meeting whose members are all murder suspects] Apologies for the interruption, but cold logic dictates that one of you is likely a killer.

Sherlock Holmes

That's idiot for "yes."

Sherlock Holmes

I've always found Sousa the musical equivalent of a leafblower.

Sherlock Holmes

Well, I thought long and hard about that, Alfredo, and after many, many hours I've come to the most wretched of realizations, one that might curdle your very blood: You are my friend.

Sherlock Holmes

True prison breaks--those from within the grounds--are rare. Those perpetrated by women, almost unheard of. [sees Watson's expression] It's statistics, Watson. It's not that they fail more; it's just that they don't try.

Sherlock Holmes

I've interviewed blind men who were better witnesses than that. Three of them. No, four.

Sherlock Holmes

Justice is like an orgasm. It can never come too late.

Sherlock Holmes

I am, of course, tumescent with questions about your meeting with my father. So was he everything you imagined? Was he driven here or did he arrive in a plume of black smoke?

Sherlock Holmes

[to a suspect who has been cleared] Good luck overthrowing the government. Don't put us against the wall when you get those firing squads, will you?

Sherlock Holmes

There's also a song that appeals to me as a detective. It's a mystery about dogs and who might have let them out.

Sherlock Holmes

I can't accept an alibi from anyone with that particular hairstyle.

Sherlock Holmes

His business is vile, but legally he's not a murderer.

Sherlock Holmes

I assure you, there's no such thing as a master of disguise. If there was, I'd be one myself.