Mr. Holmes * Quotes

Holmes: "I have been alone. All my life. But with the compensations of the intellect."
Ann Kelmot: "And is that enough?"
Holmes: "It can be. If one is so fortunate as to find a place in the world. And another soul with whom one's loneliness can reside."

Roger: "The queen runs the colony. Drones service the queen. The workers do the work."
Mrs. Munro: "Isn't it true..."

"One shouldn't leave this life without a sense of completion."

"I never had much use for imagination. I prefer facts."

Holmes: "I've decided to write the story down; as it was, not as John made it. Get it right, before I die."
Roger: "You're not going to die."
Holmes: "I'm 93."
Roger: "I had a great-uncle who lived to be 102."
Holmes: "Well done. That seals my fate. What are the odds that you would know two men who would live that long?"
Roger: "Well, I didn't actually know him."

"I was given a small chest containing the Watson stories, none of which I'd ever actually read. They were, as John always described them, penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style."

Roger: "Have you ever been bitten by a bee?"
Holmes: "Stung! Bees don't have teeth. Yes, I have."
Roger: "How often?"
Holmes: "7860 times. I keep a record."