Iconic Quotes

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.' — the title's source.

You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.

What the deuce is it to me?... You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Holmes quoting Horace and praising the 'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout' line attributed to Flaubert.