The Abominable Bride Quotes

The Abominable Bride is a television show that debuted in 1970 . The Abominable Bride ended its run in 1970.

It features Sue Vertue as producer, and David Arnold; Michael Price in charge of musical score.

The Abominable Bride Quotes

• (Dr. John Watson) "I -- I thought I was losing you. I thought perhaps we were -- neglecting each other."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Well, you're the one who moved out."
• (Dr. John Watson) "I was talking to Mary."

• (Molly Hooper) "Oh, isn't HE observant now that Daddy's gone?"
• (Dr. John Watson) "I am observant in some ways, just as Holmes is quite blind in others."
• (Molly Hooper) "Really?"
• (Dr. John Watson) "Yes. Really. Amazing what one has to do to get ahead in a man's world."

• (Mycroft Holmes) "I have access to the top level of the MI5 archive."
• (Mary Morstan) "Yep, that's where I'm looking."
• (Mycroft Holmes) "What do you think of MI5 security?"
• (Mary Morstan) "I think it would be a good idea."

• (Dr. John Watson) "Well, now that you mention it, this level of consumption is incredibly injurious to your health, your heart --"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "No need to worry on that score, Watson."
• (Dr. John Watson) "No?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "There's only a large cavity where that organ should reside."
• (Mycroft Holmes) "It's a family trait."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Oh, I wasn't being critical."

• (Lady Carmichael) "Why, Eustace, what does this mean?"
• (Sir Eustace Carmichael) "Death."
• (Lady Carmichael) "What?"
• (Sir Eustace Carmichael) "It means death."

• (Dr. John Watson) "I'm glad you liked my potato."

• (Mary Morstan) "I'm part of a campaign, you know."
• (DI Lestrade) "Huh? Campaign?"
• (Mary Morstan) "Votes for women."
• (DI Lestrade) "And you, are you for or against?"
• (Mary Morstan) "Get out."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Dear Lord, I have never been so impatient to be attacked by a murderous ghost."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "My Boswell is learning. They do grow up so fast."

• (Professor Moriarty) "Dead is the new sexy."

• (Mary Morstan) "I've been making enquiries. Mr. Holmes asked me."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Holmes, how could you?"
• (Mary Morstan) "No, not him. The clever one."

• (DI Lestrade) "You really mustn't blame yourself, you know."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "No, you're quite right."
• (Dr. John Watson) "I'm glad you're seeing sense."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Watson is equally culpable. Between us, we've managed to botch this whole case."

• (Dr. John Watson) "You're gambling with your own life?"
• (Mycroft Holmes) "Why not? It's so much more exciting than gambling with others."

• (Dr. John Watson) "If it wasn't my wife's business to talk to the staff, I would deal with you myself."

• (Unnamed) "Did you catch a murderer, Mr. Holmes?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Caught the murderer, still looking for the legs. I think we'll call it a draw."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "I hope to see you again in the morning."
• (Sir Eustace Carmichael) "You will not."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Then, sadly, I shall be solving your murder. Good day."

• (Dr. John Watson) "You're Sherlock Holmes. Wear the damn hat."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Then, come, Watson, come. The game is afoot."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "I saw you die. Why aren't you dead?"
• (Professor Moriarty) "Because it's not the fall that kills you, Sherlock. Of all people, you should know that. It's not the fall. It's never the fall. It's the landing."

• (Mrs. Hudson) "And you make the rooms so drab and dingy."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Oh, blame it on the illustrator. He's out of control. I've had to grow this moustache just so that people would recognize me."

• (DI Lestrade) "Mrs. Hudson didn't seem to be talking."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "I fear she has branched into literary criticism by mean of satire. It is a distressing trend in the modern landlady."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Thank you, John."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Since when do you call me John?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "You'd be surprised."
• (Dr. John Watson) "No, I wouldn't. Time you woke up, Sherlock. I'm a story-teller; I know when I'm in one."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Course. Of course you do, John."
• (Dr. John Watson) "So what's he like? The other me, in the other place?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Smarter than he looks."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Pretty damn smart, then."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Pretty damn smart."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Since when have you had any kind of imagination?"
• (Dr. John Watson) "Perhaps since I convinced the reading public that an unprincipled drug addict was some kind of gentleman hero."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "-- Yes, now you come to mention it, that was quite impressive."

• (Mrs. Hudson) "Mr. Holmes. I do wish you'd let me know when you're planning to come home."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "I hardly knew myself Mrs. Hudson. That's the trouble with dismembered country squires. They're notoriously difficult to schedule."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Moriarty is dead, no question. More importantly, I know exactly what he's gonna do next."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Use your brain, such as it is, to eliminate the impossible, which in this case is the ghost, and observe what remains, which in this case is a solution so blindingly obvious even Lestrade could work it out."

• (Dr. John Watson) "Good Lord."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Mrs Hudson, there is a woman in my sitting room. Is it intentional?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "She's a client, said you were out, insisted on waiting."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Would you, uh -- care to sit down?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Didn't you ask her what she wanted?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "You ask her."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Why didn't YOU ask her?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "How could I, what with me not talking and everything?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Oh."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "For god's sake, give her some lines, she's perfectly capable of starving us."

• (Dr. John Watson) "I'm taking Mary home."
• (Mary Morstan) "You're what?"
• (Dr. John Watson) "Mary's taking me home."
• (Mary Morstan) "Better."

• (Dr. John Watson) "As for your own -- tale, are you sure it's still just a seven percent solution that you take? I think you may have increased the dosage."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Perhaps I was being a little fanciful, but perhaps such things could come to pass. In any case, I know I would be very much at home in such a world."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Huh. Don't think I would be."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "I beg to differ, but then I've always known I was a man out of his time."

• (Dr. John Watson) "I'm an army doctor, which means I could break every bone in your body while naming them."

• (DI Lestrade) "There's still reporters outside."
• (Mrs. Hudson) "They've been there all the time. I can't get rid of them. I've been rushed off my feet making tea."
• (DI Lestrade) "Why do you make them tea?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "I don't know. I just sort of do."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Moriarty's dead."
• (Professor Moriarty) "Not in your mind. I'll never be dead there. You once called your brain a hard drive. Well, say hello to the virus."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Between you and me, John, I always survive a fall."
• (Dr. John Watson) "But how?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Elementary, my dear Watson."

• (Dr. John Watson) "Where did she go? She's always out these days."
• (Jane) "Not unlike yourself -- sir."
• (Dr. John Watson) "I'm sorry?"
• (Jane) "Just observing, sir."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Well, that's quite enough; nobody asked you to be observant."
• (Jane) "Sorry, sir, I just meant you are hardly ever home together anymore, sir."
• (Dr. John Watson) "You are dangerously close to impertinence. I shall have a word with my wife to have a word with you."
• (Jane) "Very good, sir. And when will you be seeing her?"

• (DI Lestrade) "What's he doing, do you think?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "He says he's waiting."
• (DI Lestrade) "For what?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "The devil. I wouldn't be surprised. We get all sorts here."

• (Dr. John Watson) "Extraordinary."
• (Mary Morstan) "Impossible."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Superb. Suicide as street theatre; murder by corpse. Lestrade, you're spoiling us."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "May I ask, how is your husband this morning?"
• (Lady Carmichael) "He refuses to speak about the matter. Obviously I have urged him to leave the house."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "No, no, he must stay exactly where he is."
• (Lady Carmichael) "Well, you don't think he's in danger?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Oh, no, someone definitely wants to kill him, but that's good for us. You can't set a trap without bait."
• (Lady Carmichael) "My husband is not bait, Mr. Holmes."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "No, but he could be if we play our cards right. Now listen: You must go home immediately. Dr Watson and I will follow on the next train. There's not a moment to lose. Sir Eustace is to die tonight."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Holmes --"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "And we should -- probably avoid that."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Definitely."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "DEFINITELY avoid that."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "You may, however, rest assured there are no ghosts in this world -- save those we make for ourselves."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Pay Mrs. Hudson a visit on your way out. She likes to feel involved."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Your wife can see worlds where no one else can see anything of value whatsoever."
• (Sir Eustace Carmichael) "Can she really? And how do you "deduce" that, Mr. Holmes?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "She married you. I assume she was capable of finding a reason."

• (Mrs. Hudson) "And I noticed you published another of your stories, Dr. Watson."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Yes. Did you enjoy it?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "No."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Oh?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "I never enjoy them."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Why not?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "Well, I never say anything do I? According to you, I just show people up the stairs and serve you breakfast."
• (Dr. John Watson) "Well, within the narrative, that is, broadly speaking, your function."
• (Mrs. Hudson) "My what ?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Don't feel singled out, Mrs Hudson. I'm hardly in the dog one."
• (Dr. John Watson) "The dog one?"
• (Mrs. Hudson) "I'm your landlady, not a plot device."
• (Dr. John Watson) "D'you mean 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?"

• (Dr. John Watson) "Tweeds in a morgue?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Needs must when the devil drives, Watson."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "For the sake of Mrs. Hudson's wallpaper, I must remind you that one false move with your finger and you will be dead."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "Controlled usage is not usually fatal, and abstinence is not immortality."

• (Sherlock Holmes) "I'm not an addict, I'm a user. I alleviate boredom and occasionally heighten my thought processes."

• (Lady Carmichael) "You promised to keep him safe. You promised."

• (DI Lestrade) "I thought you understood everything."
• (Sherlock Holmes) "Of course not. That would be an appalling waste of brain space. I specialize."

• (Dr. John Watson) "But she can't have been in two places at the same time, can she?"
• (Sherlock Holmes) "No Watson, one place is strictly the limit for the recently deceased."

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