Quotes

Enola Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: Sometimes you must dangle your feet in the water in order to attract the sharks.

Edith: You haven't any hope of understanding any of this. You do know that?
Sherlock Holmes: Educate me as to why.
Edith: Because you don't know what it is to be without power. Politics doesn't interest you. Why?
Sherlock Holmes: Because it's fatally boring.
Edith: Because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well.

Enola Holmes: When looking to travel incognito, it's safest to travel as a widow. People are always anxious to avoid conversation about death. Widows scare them. And there's no better disguise than fear.

Sherlock Holmes: [as a police officer tries to stop him from walking through Scotland Yard] Don't be ridiculous.

Eudoria Holmes: There are two paths you can take, Enola. Yours... or the path others choose for you.

Edith: If you want to stay in London, be tough... Be tough! Live the life. But don't do it because you're looking for someone. Do it because you're looking for yourself.

Enola Holmes: I've come here because I've grown to like you more in your absence and because, as it turns out, your life is still in danger.
Tewkesbury: What has made you like me more?
[Tewkesbury picks up a flower from his stall]
Enola Holmes: Really? That is your question? Not 'who is trying to kill me'?
[Tewkesbury hands a flower to Enola]

Eudoria Holmes: Try to be excited, not disappointed at the possibilities of something new.

Enola Holmes: She was not an ordinary mother. She didn't teach me to string seashells or practice my embroidery. We did different things. Reading, science, sports, all sorts of exercise - both physical and mental. Mother said we were free to do anything at Ferndell... and be anyone.

Sherlock Holmes: The choice is always yours. Whatever society may claim, it can't control you.

Enola Holmes: You tickle me, Viscount Tewkesbury, you magnificent marquess of blooming Basilwether. You're a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for.

Enola Holmes: Why did you never write?
Sherlock Holmes: Would you have cared for my letters?
Enola Holmes: I have kept every clipping of every case of yours I could ever find.
Sherlock Holmes: That's flattering.
Enola Holmes: And, yet, it took our mother's disappearance to bring you home.

Enola Holmes: She wouldn't like you in here. This is her private space.
Sherlock Holmes: Tell me, she at least saw that you had an education? She valued education.
Enola Holmes: She taught me herself. She made me read every book in Ferndell Hall's library. Shakespeare, Locke, and the encyclopedia, and Thackeray, and the essays of Mary Wollstonecraft. And I did it on my own account. For my own learning. Which, Mother said, was the best way to become a young... woman.

Eudoria Holmes: Paint your own picture, Enola. Don't be thrown off course by other people. Especially men!

Sherlock Holmes: You know, last I remember of you, you were quite a timid little thing. You had a pine cone wrapped in wool, dragged it with you everywhere you went - calling it Dash. Someone told you that Queen Victoria had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Dash, and you decided you wanted the same. We could never persuade you to put any trousers on. Your bottom was always bare. I think that's all the memories I have.
Enola Holmes: Thank you. If you could now forget them all.

Sherlock Holmes: Now, please put the teapot down. In your hands it is a mighty weapon.
[Edith puts the teapot on the table]
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you.

[first lines]
Enola Holmes: Now, where to begin? The first thing you need to know is that my mother named me Enola.

Mycroft Holmes: I believe I explicitly told you to look for her.
Lestrade: You explicitly told me to look for a scrappy girl with no poise. This was a woman... with extreme poise.
Mycroft Holmes: There's a wild thing underneath. That, I assure you.

Mycroft Holmes: We have two problems, as I see it. One, finding a boarding school that is willing to take Enola on so she won't be a complete failure in this world. That, I am in the process of solving with the help of an old friend. And two... finding Mother.

Enola Holmes: No! Please don't do this to me. Let me remain happy. I am happy here.
Mycroft Holmes: You are a young woman now, Enola. You need an education.
Enola Holmes: Test me on anything you think I need to know in order to be sufficient for this world.
Mycroft Holmes: If she taught you so well you wouldn't be standing in your undergarments in front of me, would you? You have no hope of making a husband in your current state.
Enola Holmes: I don't want a husband!
Mycroft Holmes: And that is another thing you need to have educated out of you.
[Enola kneels beside Sherlock]
Enola Holmes: Sherlock. Don't let him do this to me.
Sherlock Holmes: You are his ward.
Enola Holmes: Make me yours. Guide me. Teach me. For him, I am a nuisance. For you...
Sherlock Holmes: Enola. I'm sorry. It's out of my hands.

Enola Holmes: [Yelling] Sometimes, Lord Tewkesbury, you have to dangle your legs in the water to attract the bloody sharks!
Tewkesbury: [Annoyed/Confused] Why would we want to attract the bloody sharks?
Enola Holmes: [sighs] Good point.

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