Enola Holmes (2020) quotes

Director
Harry Bradbeer.

Cast
Millie Bobby Brown.
Henry Cavill.
Helena Bonham Carter.

When Enola Holmes-Sherlock’s teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.

 

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

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

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

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

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

I don’t know what she wanted me to be.
– Enola Holmes

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

Look for what’s there, not what you want to be there.
– Sherlock Holmes

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

Enola.
– Sherlock Holmes
My God. Look at you. You’re in such a mess.
– Mycroft Holmes

You have to make some noise if you want to be heard.
– Eudoria Holmes

I don’t need friends. I have my own company.
– Enola Holmes

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.
– Edith

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

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

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

You’re being emotional. It’s understandable, but unnecessary.
– Sherlock 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.
– Enola Holmes