The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes:
You impress me, Doctor Mortimer. Was there anything else?

Dr. Mortimer:
Yes.

Sherlock Holmes:
Footprints? A man or a woman's?

Dr. Mortimer:
Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

[Stapleton and Dr. Watson are talking about the beauties and dangers of the great Grimpen Mire when an distant, unearthly howling is heard]

Stapleton:
The moor is full of noises.

Dr. John Watson:
But what was it?

Stapleton:
The peasants say it is the Hound of the Baskervilles calling for its prey.

[first lines]

Dr. John Watson:
Finished. [stretching] Aah! [picks up and studies walking stick]

Sherlock Holmes:
[with his back to Watson] What do you make of it, Watson?

Dr. John Watson:
What? Huh,I believe you've got eyes in the back of your head, Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes:
Well, I have a well-polished coffee pot in front of me.

Sherlock Holmes:
It may be that you are not yourself luminous but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power for stimulating it. I... I confess that, my dear fellow, I'm very much in your debt.

Dr. Mortimer:
You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?

Sherlock Holmes:
*Please*, Dr. Mortimer.

Dr. Mortimer:
A cast of your skull Sir, until the original becomes available?

[Holmes bursts into laughter]

Dr. Mortimer:
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess, I covet your skull.

Sherlock Holmes:
Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.

[Gesturing to the chair]

Dr. Mortimer:
[dog sits beside Mr. Mortimer] Spot. Yes, good boy.

Sherlock Holmes:
Well, I presume it was not your phrenological passion which drew you to Baker Street.

Dr. Mortimer:
Unfortunately it was not, Sir.

Sherlock Holmes:
It's an ugly, dangerous business, Watson. Believe me, I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound at Baker Street once more.

Sherlock Holmes:
It is a worthy setting if the devil did decide to dabble in the affairs of men.

Sir Henry Baskerville:
I thought we had a chance of getting to the bottom of this business. All we seem to have done is compound a felony.

Dr. John Watson:
I would to God that Holmes were here. Why does he not come?

Dr. John Watson:
I'm afraid my duty to Holmes overrode my tact.

Sir Henry Baskerville:
[about Beryl Stapleton] There's a light in her eyes that speaks louder than words.

Frankland:
I was burned in effigy in Fernworthy last week.

Dr. Mortimer:
If it's one animal on this planet which I cannot abide it is a rabbit.

Dr. John Watson:
Really?

Dr. Mortimer:
Rabbits burrow.

Dr. Mortimer:
If there's to be danger, then... two guns will be better than one.

Sherlock Holmes:
When I see a cigarette stub marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know my friend Watson is in the neighborhood. Be careful of that gun.

Dr. John Watson:
I thought you were in Baker Street working on that case of blackmail.

Sherlock Holmes:
That is what I wished you to think.

Dr. John Watson:
[looking at the stew Holmes has made] It's quite disgusting, Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes:
Yes. Yes, it is. Well, it's better when it's hot.

Sherlock Holmes:
This case possesses features which are entirely its own.

[last lines]

Sherlock Holmes:
I have tickets for 'Les Huguenots' at Covent Garden. A little dinner at Marcini's on the way.

Dr. John Watson:
Wonderful, Holmes.