Dudley Moore: Doctor Watson, Mrs. Ada Holmes, Mr. Spiggot, Piano Player
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Quotes
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Sherlock Holmes : Do you think I'm gonna waste my time combing the streets of London for some old boot? This is a job for an imbecile.
Doctor Watson : Quite right, Holmes, let me deal with this.
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Mrs. Ada Holmes : Pesticide, my own son guilty of pesticide!
Sherlock Holmes : It's patricide, mother.
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Doctor Watson : Where and at what time does the train leave for Baskerville?
Dr. Mortimer : Tomorrow, 12 o'clock, Victoria.
Doctor Watson : Oh no, you can call me John.
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Doctor Watson : [on phone] Holmes, it's Watson here. Listen, it's very urgent you come down immediately on the next train to Baskerviille, twelve noon train.
[listens]
Doctor Watson : You'll be in disguise? Well how am I going to recognize you, then? Why can't you wear a pink carnation?
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Mrs. Ada Holmes : Now then, Shirl.
Sherlock Holmes : Mother, please don't call me Shirl.
Mrs. Ada Holmes : I've always called you Shirl and I always will. Oh, you should have seen him when he was a little girl, Iris.
Sherlock Holmes : I never was a little girl, mother.
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Mrs. Ada Holmes : I like to strike a happy Medium.
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[first lines]
Nun : Monsieur le Doctor Watson, what is keeping Monsieur Holmes so long?
Doctor Watson : Oh, reassurez-vous yourselves sisters, your holy relic will be with you momentarily.
Nun : But we have been waiting almost one hour!
Doctor Watson : Mr. Holmes is a very busy man sister. Monsieur Holmes is an, erm, tres occupée sister.
Nun : But tomorrow is the festival of St Beryl, already thousands of blind cripples are flocking to the chapel hoping to kiss the relic. In the name of all the flocking blind cripples, I beseech you...
