Morland: You don't look well.
Sherlock: You look as spry as ever. My compliments to the virgins whose blood you bathe in.

In a nutshell, Agent Burke, they're perfecting the art of brainwashing.

Sherlock

[To Joan] I want to make sure Joey isn't taking advantage of you.

Sherlock

I don't think he's entirely correct that the Department is essential to my support system. Our work certainly hasn't been a boon to my well-being of late. But there are other considerations. I believe it would make me happy.

Sherlock

So that rancid smell *isn't* impropriety?

Joan

Joan: Good luck explaining why you were locked in a closet with a bloody murder weapon.
Sherlock: No, it could be worse. Imagine how embarrassing this would be if it came out during your confirmation hearing!

With him, there is always a cost. The toll always comes due.

Sherlock

Are you cooking, or did we get stampeded by a class of second graders?

Joan

Morland: Was I expecting you?
Sherlock: Not to my knowledge. But I can't rule you you having foreseen it via the black arts.

Close, but wrong cold-blooded reptile. My dinner date is my father. I can understand you confusing him with Clyde; *they* could be doppelgangers.

Sherlock

She's strong, Watson. Smart. The training I'm attempting to provide her, the same training I provided you, for her has an ulterior motive. It is, in part, an attempt to channel residual feelings that she has into a productive skill. I believe she will make an excellent investigator. Just not today.

Holmes

So let's say I am being framed, if that were true, I'd take that fall. I know it wouldn't get Amy back, but at least she would know that I'm the one who got the guy.

Coleman

Elementary Quotes

Holmes: Why do you suppose you hate your job so much?
Watson: I don't hate my job.
Holmes: You have two alarm clocks. No one with two alarm clocks loves their job. Two alarm clocks mean it's a chore for you to get up in the morning.

Watson: How do you do it, guess things?
Sherlock: I observe and then I deduce.
Watson: How did you know I was a doctor, you said you could tell from my hands.
Sherlock: Hand, singular. It was soft no calluses.
Watson: How did you know my father had an affair?
Sherlock: Google. Not everything is deducible.