Top 24 Mycroft's Quotes

#1. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #107396
#2. I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.

William Shakespeare

Mycroft's Quotes #275947
#3. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mycroft's Quotes #279378
#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

Mycroft's Quotes #304968
#5. But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

David Klass

Mycroft's Quotes #330371
#6. That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

Thomas Heywood

Mycroft's Quotes #346343
#7. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #358548
#8. Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there's fire. Maybe there'll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don't accept anything lukewarm. Because you're fire and ice, and you're the brightest and the best, Kiernan.

Heather Graham

Mycroft's Quotes #402854
#9. I don't believe. I hope. There's no knowing, is there? Only anticipation.

Ellie Marney

Mycroft's Quotes #534819
#10. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #536317
#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

Mycroft's Quotes #707469
#12. Love me...I am not evil.

Christopher Pike

Mycroft's Quotes #761159
#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

Mycroft's Quotes #924359
#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

Mycroft's Quotes #937555
#15. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #1019765
#16. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #1073766
#17. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #1144362
#18. Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Jasper Fforde

Mycroft's Quotes #1242280
#19. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Anthony Horowitz

Mycroft's Quotes #1258140
#20. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #1422271
#21. You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

Laurie R. King

Mycroft's Quotes #1498847
#22. Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt

Mycroft's Quotes #1532688
#23. 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

Mycroft's Quotes #1592245
#24. With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution

Sunday Adelaja

Mycroft's Quotes #1820979

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