Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Movie Quotes
Sherlock Holmes
Uh, hmm... Right. Where are the wagons?
Madam Simza Heron
The wagon is too slow. Can't you ride?
Dr. John Watson
It's not that he can't ride... How is it you put it, Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes
They're dangerous at both ends and... crafty in the middle. Why would I want anything with a mind of its own bobbing about between my legs?
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[Holmes is looking at Moriarty and starts analyzing the upcoming fight]
Sherlock Holmes
[v.o]
His advantage, my injury. My advantage, his rage. Incoming assault feral, but experienced. Use his momentum to counter.
[as Holmes hits Moriarty in the face, everything stops and the audience watches Moriarty's face]
[Back to the analyzed fight]
Professor Moriaty
Trap arm, target weakness. Follow with haymaker.
Sherlock Holmes
Ah, there we find the boxing champion of Cambridge.
[Holmes throws a hook at Moriarty's face]
Professor Moriaty
Competent, but predictable. Now, allow me to reply.
[Moriarty throws several punches at Holmes' shoulder]
Sherlock Holmes
Arsenal running dry. Adjust strategy.
[Holmes tries to kick Moriarty but fails]
Professor Moriaty
Wound taking its toll.
Sherlock Holmes
As I feared. Injury makes defense untenable. Prognosis, increasingly negative.
[Moriarty corners Holmes against the edge of the cliff]
Professor Moriaty
Let's not waste any more of one another's time. We both know how this ends.
[Moriarty throws Holmes over the balcony and the scene cuts back to the real time]
Sherlock Holmes
Conclusion: inevitable. Unless...
[Holmes blows ashes from his pipe into Moriarty's face, grabs him, and topples them both over the balcony, down the falls]
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Madam Simza Heron
What do you see?
Sherlock Holmes
Everything. That is my curse.
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[flips the note over to back side]
Dr. John Watson
If inconvenient, come all the same.
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Professor Moriaty
You see, hidden within the unconscious, there is an insatiable desire for conflict. So, you're not fighting me, so much as you are the human condition. All I want to do is own the bullets and the bandages.
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[after Holmes throws Mary off the train, Watson turns around and sees his wife gone]
Sherlock Holmes
It had to be done. She's safe now! In my own defense, I timed it perfectly-!
[Watson lunges at him and starts throttling him]
Dr. John Watson
Did you kill my wife?
Sherlock Holmes
[muffled, tries to respond]
Dr. John Watson
DID-YOU-JUST-KILL-MY-NEW-WIFE?
Dr. John Watson
What do you mean? How do you know that, when you just threw her off a train?
Sherlock Holmes
I told you, I timed it perfectly!
Dr. John Watson
What does that mean?
Sherlock Holmes
Calm down!
Dr. John Watson
Explain!
Sherlock Holmes
By the time I explained, we'd both be dead!
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Mycroft Holmes
Good evening, Mrs Watson. I'm the other Holmes.
Mary Watson
You mean there's *two* of you? How marvelous! Could this evening get any better?
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Sherlock Holmes
Madam, this is a glorious hedgehog goulash. I can't remember ever having had better.
Dr. John Watson
Do tell me, when was the last time you had a hedgehog goulash?
Sherlock Holmes
I told you, Watson, I can't remember.
Dr. John Watson
Perfectly normal.
Sherlock Holmes
How dare you be rude to this women who has invited us into her tent, offered us her hedgehog?
Dr. John Watson
Says the man who throws women from trains.
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Mary Watson
I miss him too, in my own way.
Dr. John Watson
He would have wanted us to go to Brighton.
Mary Watson
He would have wanted to come with us.
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[Holmes has arrived at the auction and is trying to defuse the motion-sensitive bomb intended for Dr. Hoffmanstahl]
Sherlock Holmes
One million pounds! Oh, and by the way, fire.
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Dr. John Watson
You do seem...
Sherlock Holmes
Excited?
Dr. John Watson
Manic.
Sherlock Holmes
I am.
Dr. John Watson
Verging on...
Sherlock Holmes
Ecstatic?
Dr. John Watson
Psychotic.
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Dr. John Watson
How did you know I would find you?
Sherlock Holmes
You didn't find me. You collapsed a building on me.
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Sherlock Holmes
Who's been dancing on my chest?
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Sherlock Holmes
Did you call me a selfish bastard?
Dr. John Watson
Probably.
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[when Holmes has sedated Gladstone yet again]
Dr. John Watson
How many times are you going to kill my dog?
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[Holmes detects that an assassin is hiding on the ceiling and preparing to kill Simza; he compares taking the man out to preparing an omelet]
Sherlock Holmes
[voice-over]
First, pillage the nest. Clip wings. Now, blunt his beak. Crack eggs. Scramble, pinch of salt. Touch of pepper. Flip the omelet. Additional seasoning required. Breakfast is served.
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[cover falls off to reveal a cannon aimed at him]
Colonel Sebastian Moran
...That's not fair.
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Sherlock Holmes
Dear, dear, sickly sweet Nanny. Might I have a word?
[He uncovers the tray in her hands, revealing white rats under glass]
Sherlock Holmes
Yummy. Feed the snake, woman.
Mrs. Hudson
You feed it!
Sherlock Holmes
Touchy, touchy.
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Sherlock Holmes
[lights pipe]
Dr. John Watson
What are we doing down here?
Sherlock Holmes
*We* are waiting. *I* am smoking.
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Sherlock Holmes
[to Moriarity]
My horror at your crimes is matched only by my admiratio of the skill it took to achieve them.
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Professor Moriaty
Rest assured, if you attempt to bring destruction down upon me, I shall do the same to you. My respect for you, Mr. Holmes, is the only reason you are still alive.
Sherlock Holmes
You've paid me several compliments. Let me pay you one in return when I say that, if I were assured of the former eventuality, I would cheerfully accept the latter.
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Sherlock Holmes
What better place to start a war than a peace summit?
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[from trailer]
Sherlock Holmes
I agree it's not my best disguise.
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[gets strangled]
Sherlock Holmes
Ah, it's coming back.
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[from trailer]
Dr. John Watson
It's not in your face; it's in my hand.
Sherlock Holmes
Get what's in your hand out of my face!
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[first lines]
Dr. John Watson
[voice-over]
The year was 1891. Storm clouds were brewing over Europe. France and Germany were at each other's throats, the result of a series of bombings. Some said it was the Nationalists. Others, the anarchists. But as usual, my friend Sherlock Holmes, had a different theory entirely.
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Dr. John Watson
Oh, how I've missed you, Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes
Have you? Why? I've barely noticed your absence.
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Dr. John Watson
He's after us, because of you!
Sherlock Holmes
Don't be so petulant about it.
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Mycroft Holmes
Where are you *going*, Stanley?
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[last lines]
Dr. John Watson
[upon receiving the oxygen mask as an indication that Holmes may be alive]
Mary? Who delivered this parcel?
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Sherlock Holmes
[referring to Moriarty]
If we can stop him, we shall prevent the collapse of Western civilization... No pressure.
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[from trailer]
Professor Moriaty
Are you sure you want to play this game?
Sherlock Holmes
I'm afraid you'd lose.
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Irene Adler
[as her thugs are getting ready to beat Holmes]
Be careful with the face, boys! We do have a dinner date tonight.
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Dr. John Watson
I'm on my honeymoon!
[Watson kicks Holmes on the bum]
Dr. John Watson
Why did you lead them here! Why did you involve us?
Sherlock Holmes
They're not here for me they are here for you! Fortunately... so am I.
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Irene Adler
It was taken.
Professor Moriaty
Taken? That is unfortunate.
Irene Adler
During the chaos created by your package.
Irene Adler
Perhaps, if you had shared your plans.
Professor Moriaty
You wish to know my plans now, dear? Do you imagine, Miss Adler, that something would happen to you? Is that why you chose to meet here in a public place? Your favorite restaurant?
[Moran taps his glass three times, causing everyone in the restaurant to immediately leave]
Professor Moriaty
[revealing himself to Irene]
I don't blame you. I blame myself. It's been apparent to me for some time that you would succumb to your feelings for him. It isn't the first occasion that Mr. Holmes inconvenienced me in recent months. The question is: What to do about it? That is my problem to solve now. I no longer require your services
[sipping his tea while Adler collapse to her death]
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Mycroft Holmes
[referring to Watson]
You know, he's nothing like as slow witted as you've been leading me to believe, Sherly.
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Sherlock Holmes
Lie down with me Watson.
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Sherlock Holmes
Are you familiar with the study of graphology?
Professor Moriaty
I have never given it any serious thought, no.
Sherlock Holmes
The psychological analysis of handwriting. The upwards strokes on the p, the j, the m indicate a genius level intellect. The flourishes on the lower zone denote a highly creative yet meticulous nature. But if one observes the overall slant and pressure of the handwriting there is a suggestion of acute narcissism, a complete lack of empathy, and pronounced inclination toward...
Sherlock Holmes
...moral insanity.
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[Watson and Holmes start to dance together]
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[repeated line]
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[after Holmes's booby-trap drives back Moriarty's assassins on the train]
Sherlock Holmes
That was no accident. It was by design. Now, do you need me to elaborate... or can we just crack on?
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Sherlock Holmes
SPOILER: The most formidable criminal mind in Europe, has just had all his money stolen. By perhaps the most inept inspector in the history of Scotland Yard.
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[from trailer]
Sherlock Holmes
I'm knee-deep in the single most important case of my career.
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Sherlock Holmes
You have the supply, new you require the demand. A war with everyone... a world war.
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Madam Simza Heron
Welcome. I am Madam Simza. Cards can illuminate your past... clarify your present, and show you the future. If you have a specific question, hold it in your mind.
Sherlock Holmes
Hmm. I'm... holding.
Madam Simza Heron
Let me know when you're ready.
[laying cards out as they talk]
Sherlock Holmes
Temperance... inverted. Indicative of volatility. A woman who has recently taken her comfort in drink. From what does she seek solace? What does she not wish to see?
Madam Simza Heron
A fool embarrassing himself?
Sherlock Holmes
Hmm.
Madam Simza Heron
Hmm.
Sherlock Holmes
Oh, yes. The Fool. Someone has been led astray, involved in something without their knowledge.
Madam Simza Heron
Not bad, but, um, you have to make me believe you. I have to see it in your eyes.
Sherlock Holmes
Right. I can do better.
Madam Simza Heron
Uh-huh.
Sherlock Holmes
The Two of Cups, a powerful bond. But between whom? A brother and sister, perhaps? And I see a name. Yes, it's... Rene.
Madam Simza Heron
What do you want?
Sherlock Holmes
The Devil.
Madam Simza Heron
Why are we playing this game?
[he hands a letter over]
Madam Simza Heron
Where did you get this?
Sherlock Holmes
I stole it from a woman in an auction room, but I believe it was intended for you.
[opening it, she finds a handmade drawing; turning it over, she reads the text on the back in French]
Madam Simza Heron
"Sim, my love. Remember my face, as you will never see it again. That is the price I must pay to change the course of history. I have finally found my purpose in life."
Sherlock Holmes
"Found my purpose in life." So, the question I've been holding is, what purpose is Rene fulfilling?
Madam Simza Heron
Time is up. I have other clients.
Sherlock Holmes
[standing to leave]
Though you may not have detected the wisp of Astrakhan fur snagged on a nail over my left shoulder, you couldn't have failed to notice the overpowering aroma of herring pickled in vodka in tandem with a truly unfortunate body odor. There's a man concealed in the rafters above us. A Cossack, renowned for their infeasible acrobatic abilities and are notorious for moonlighting as assassins. So it's safe to presume that your next client is here to kill you.
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Dr. John Watson
You completely forgot about my stag party, didn't you? Why are we here?
Mycroft Holmes
[approaching]
Your very good health, Doctor. Shame none of your friends could make it.
[Sherlock laughs and Watson chuckles sarcastically]
Dr. John Watson
I'm going to the gaming tables. I refuse for this night to be a total loss. Give me my money.
Sherlock Holmes
Happily. Give me the wedding ring.
Dr. John Watson
Oh, now you're interested in being the best man. You're supposed to keep the ring anyway. Just as you're supposed to organize my stag party.
Dr. John Watson
And invite my friends, of which, by the way, there are many. You're the one with no friends, Sherly No Mates.
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Mrs. Hudson
Doctor, you must get him to a sanatorium. He's been on a diet of coffee, tobacco, and coca leaves. He never sleeps. I hear multiple voices as if he's rehearsing for a play...
Dr. John Watson
Leave him to me.
[goat lows]
Mrs. Hudson
Oh, how kind of you to remind me. So much to look forward to. What would I do without you?
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Sherlock Holmes
Do you trust me?
Mary Watson
No.
Sherlock Holmes
Well, then I shall have to do something about that.
[pushes Mary Watson out of train]
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Sherlock Holmes
[regarding his dislike of having to ride horses]
It's 1891, we could have charted a balloon!
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Sherlock Holmes
We get to have that game, after all.
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Sherlock Holmes
Herr Hoffmanstahl, you should count yourself lucky. This faceless man with whom you find yourself in business is no ordinary criminal. He's the Napoleon of crime. Fortunately, you now have me as an ally. I'm a consulting detective of some repute. Perhaps you've heard of me? My name is Sherlock...
[muffled explosion]
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[from trailer]
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Professor Moriaty
Your clock is ticking.
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Professor Moriaty
Once we've concluded our business here... it's important you know... I shall endeavor to find the most creative of endings for the Doctor... and his Wife.
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Dr. John Watson
Why are you looking at me with such concern?
Sherlock Holmes
I'm so very worried. Your vitality's been drained from you. Marriage is the end, I tell you.
Dr. John Watson
I think of it as the beginning.
Sherlock Holmes
Armageddon.
Dr. John Watson
Rebirth.
Sherlock Holmes
Restriction.
Dr. John Watson
Structure.
Sherlock Holmes
Answering to a woman.
Dr. John Watson
Being in a relationship. A life in matrimony, the possibility of a family. Who wants to die alone?
Sherlock Holmes
We'll have a good old-fashioned romp tonight you'll settle down, have a family, and I'll die alone.
Dr. John Watson
Yes, that's about it.
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Professor Moriaty
Have you actually read the book?
Sherlock Holmes
I found it compelling though I'm primarily interested in your more recent endeavors.
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Mycroft Holmes
Although these gentlemen may be talking peace believe me, they're readying their armies at home.
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Dr. John Watson
SPOILER: A few words may suffice, to tell the little that remains. Any attempt at finding the bodies was absolutely hopeless. They are still there, deep down in that dreadful cauldron of swirling water and searing foam. Alive for all time, the most dangerous criminal and foremost champion of the law of their generation. I shall ever regard him as the best, and the wisest man whom I've ever known.
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[from trailer]
Dr. John Watson
I see your web of conspiracy has expanded.
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Dr. John Watson
Holmes, how did you know I would find you?
Sherlock Holmes
You didn't find me, you collapsed a building on me.
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[Turning the note over]
Dr. John Watson
If inconvenient, come all the same.
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