Quotes About Mycroft Holmes

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. 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

#3. Don't get angry. Get creative. Or you will not last.

Owen Gleiberman

#4. I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

Craig Ferguson

#5. 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

#6. Anything is possible. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

#7. "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

#8. 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

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

Anthony Horowitz

#10. Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it.

Victor A. Davis

#11. I believe this is your facade.

Skye Callahan

#12. We are different from previous generations of conservatives ... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

Paul Weyrich