- Prime Minister Lord Salisbury: You have my word.
- Sherlock Holmes: [Acidly] I would prefer some more reliable authority.
- Sherlock Holmes: Watson, what are you doing?
- Dr. John H. Watson: I'm trying to corner the last pea on my plate.
- [Holmes squashes the pea]
- Dr. John H. Watson: You squashed my pea.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, now you've got it cornered.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Yes, but squashing a fellow's pea.
- Sherlock Holmes: Just trying to help.
- Dr. John H. Watson: I didn't want it squashed, I don't like it that way - I like it whole so that you can feel it pop when you bite down on it.
- Sherlock Holmes: Sorry, I wasn't thinking.
- Sherlock Holmes: [to Lestrade] When people are frightened, they turn to God, and when they have no help from him, they look to the Devil.
- Sherlock Holmes: We've unmasked madmen, Watson, wielding scepters. Reason run riot. Justice howling at the moon.
- Sherlock Holmes: You create allegiance above your sworn allegiance to protect humanity. You shall not care for them, or acknowledge their pain. There lies the madness.
- Sherlock Holmes: [Reacting to the tardiness of the Prince of Wales] I suppose since, after all, he's only the Prince of Wales, we should not expect the same degree of courtesy.
- Dr. John H. Watson: And since you are the Prince of Detectives, Holmes, I don't think you should presume to criticize a man who one day will be King of England.
- Sherlock Holmes: [amused] Well done, Watson! You have cut me to the quick. Hmm! Only the Prince of Detectives, you say? Then who, pray tell, is the King?
- Dr. John H. Watson: Lestrade, of course.
- [Holmes laughs]
- Dr. John H. Watson: [Offended by the booing of the Prince of Wales by the theater gallery] It's a damn disgrace!
- Sherlock Holmes: On the contrary. I prefer bad manners in the theater to active violence in the streets.
- Prime Minister Lord Salisbury: You have us at a disadvantage, Mr. Holmes. I think it might be better if you tell us your story in your own way and permit me to be the judge of whether it is true or not.
- Sherlock Holmes: [Assertively] You may take it to be true, sir!
- Sir Charles Warren: [Angrily] Don't play games with me, Holmes! You're running with the foxes, and you know their colors well!
- Inspector Foxborough: I naturally assumed, Sir Charles, that Mr Holmes was here at your invitation.
- Sir Charles Warren: He's not. I've no use for his sort of.. bloody amateur. Consulting detective! Get him out of here!