Mycroft Quotes

#1. The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

#2. Fourth, a telegram from brother Mycroft: 'Will visit at earliest possible convenience - great uproar in Whitehall. Mend quickly; your death would be most inconvenient at this time.

Lyndsay Faye

#3. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

David E. Fessenden

#5. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.

Ada Palmer

#6. Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Frank Herbert

#7. Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!

Avijeet Das

#8. I don't believe. I hope. There's no knowing, is there? Only anticipation.

Ellie Marney

#9. I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy.

Andy Lane

#10. Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. "One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams."
Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer

Vannessa Anderson

#12. ...despite the rain, I felt I had never been more content. I had gold, a friend, a horse, and brandy. I could envisage no end to my life but a bullet, yet even if I never had more than this, it would be enough.

Cherie Pugh

#13. If you looked inside his brain at this moment you'd see all the little synapses, Catherine wheels and penny bangers and skyrockets, all firing off into space in some sparkling display of gathering momentum. I don't want to look into his brain. Looking into his eyes is bad enough.

Ellie Marney

#14. Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought.

Jasper Fforde

#15. I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

Richard Flanagan

#16. GSD?' murmured Mycroft. 'What in heaven's name is that?'
'Global Standard Deity,' answered Polly. 'It's a mixture of all the religions. I think it's meant to stop religious wars.

Jasper Fforde

#17. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.

Anthony Horowitz

#18. The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Jasper Fforde

#20. People prefer a good story to sound theology!

Rossol Ian

#21. I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.

Matt Passmore

#22. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Anthony Horowitz

#23. You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt.

Nora Roberts

#24. Because my brother Mycroft possesses it in a larger degree than I do. This was news to me indeed. If there were another man with such singular powers in England, how was it that neither police nor public had heard of him?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

Laurie R. King

#26. Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

C.S. Lewis

#27. I admit to being a moron at lots of things. Being a moron in one or two areas serves to highlight my extraordinary brilliance in everything else.

Ellie Marney

#28. Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

Rudyard Kipling

#29. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca.