Mr. Holmes

"There seems to be an outbreak of mortality."

"A good son always does what his mother asks."

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

"Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents."

Roger: "The story you wrote, is it real?"
Holmes: "Of course. Fiction is worthless."

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."

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

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