- Captain Thomas Gregson: Anyone ever tell you you're not much of a statesman?
- Sherlock Holmes: Some statesmen have.
- Sherlock Holmes: The detective and I will investigate post haste.
- Dr. Joan Watson: Why do you get to go?
- Sherlock Holmes: Because I stood up first.
- Tara Parker: The people you're talking about are scientists, not murderers.
- Sherlock Holmes: The frequency of overlap between those two vocations might surprise you.
- Sherlock Holmes: I've interviewed blind men who were better witnesses than that. Three of them. No, four.
- Yusuf Al Shamsi: Are you actually suggesting that a member of our Royal family is involved in a plot to kill American... bees?
- Yusuf Al Shamsi: And so this meeting had come to an ignoble end.