The Sign of Four (1987 TV Movie)
Edward Hardwicke: Dr. Watson, Dr. John Watson
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Dr. John Watson : What a very attractive woman.
Sherlock Holmes : Was she? I hadn't noticed.
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[first lines]
Dr. John Watson : Very pretty young woman crossing the street. And I think she may be coming here.
Sherlock Holmes : Incidentally, I have glanced over your latest account of my work.
Dr. John Watson : Oh, yes?
Sherlock Holmes : Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science. Observation, deduction, a cold unemotional subject. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism which has much the same effect as if you'd worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
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Dr. John Watson : What a very attractive woman!
Sherlock Holmes : It is of the first importance not to allow your judgement to be biased by personal qualities. A client to me is a mere unit, a factor of the problem.
Dr. John Watson : Holmes, you are an automaton, a calculating machine; there is something positively inhuman in you at times.
Sherlock Holmes : I assure you the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Dr. John Watson : However, in this case...
Sherlock Holmes : Ah. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.