Best Moriarty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle.”

Smile Moriarty Death Rattle

Book:Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Source: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

“The thing you have to understand,” Hel said quietly, as if the shadows might overhear, “is that someone like my father doesn’t have ‘men.’ He’s a whisper of information, a nudge on someone’s baser instincts, a finger on a domino whose effects spiral out in unseen designs.”

Haunting Beautiful Quote Moriarty Strange Beasts

Book:Strange Beasts

Source: Strange Beasts

“I live by three simple rules 1. Order your existence in a way which is necessary to meet your needs. 2. Surround yourself with people that can be manipulated. 3. In every conquest find a way to be victorious.”

Dark Fiction Moriarty

Book:Moriarty

Source: Moriarty

“Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose.”

Impossible Moriarty Deduction Occams Razor

Book:Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Source: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

“Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile. And I relaxed. I knew. My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from disappointment to attempted murder. Understand me, Professor James Moriarty was a hateful man, the most hateful, hateable, creature I have ever known, not excluding Sir Augustus and Kali’s Kitten and the Abominable Bloody Snow-Bastard and the Reverend Henry James Prince. He was something man-shaped that had crawled out from under a rock and moved into the manor house. But, at that moment, I was his, and I remain his forever. If I am remembered, it will be because I knew him. From that day on, he was my father, my commanding officer, my heathen idol, my fortune and terror and rapture.”

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Book:Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Source: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

“Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns.”

Moriarty Viper

Book:Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Source: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

“The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.”

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Author:Morley Safer

“One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.”

People Knows Needs Sometimes Violence Commit Manipulative Moriarty

Author:Jared Harris

“Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.”

Literature Term Villain Moriarty Super Villain

Author:Kam Williams

“[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about Moriarty. There was something fascinating and actually amoral, rather than immoral, about Charles Augustus Magnussen. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock [Holmes] is actually appalled by him.”

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Author:Mark Gatiss

“We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.”

Made Different Charm Conan Moriarty

Author:Mark Gatiss

“I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.”

World Ends Wanted Settling Moriarty

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

Intention Skulls Moriarty

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.”

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Book:Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”

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Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

“But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.”

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Author:Vincent Starrett

“Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.”

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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is best when you are in love.”

Life Inspirational Life Is Moriarty

Author:Michael Moriarty

“He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.”

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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund