Quotation

SPOILER ALERT: Well, now is the time for Holmes to enlighten not only Watson, but Lestrade. -I shan't tell the police anything. They're stupid. … I dare say you are extremely clever. It won't be much good to you if you're not alive long enough to enjoy the fact. Don't you understand, you foolish child, that so long as you insist on keeping your little secrets, you put yourself in imminent danger? -Of course I do. But in some books, person after person is killed. And you end by spotting the murderer because he or she is practically the only person left. We must wait and see what happens next. === He thought she was beautiful and gracious. But he said there was no point in me having any more ballet lessons because I would never be good enough or gracious enough. He said it wasn't so much swan lake as duck pond. === I hate stupid people. "They're useless, apart from dying during wars" like grandpapa used to say.