Moriarty Quotes

• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Order, Cities, Evil

  "The Final Problem" (1893)

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, London, Quiet

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.91, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  World, Settling, Ends

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• Life is best when you are in love.

  Michael Moriarty

  Inspirational, Life, Life Is

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Skulls, Intention

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.500, Race Point Pub

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  People, Needs, Violence

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Morley Safer

  Feet, Perfect, Office

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• 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.

  Vincent Starrett

  Country, Rain, Writing

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Crime, Professors, Mathematical

  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

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• [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.

  Mark Gatiss

  Character, Evil, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Mark Gatiss

  Different, Conan, Charm

  Source: collider.com

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

  Kam Williams

  Literature, Villain, Term

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• 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.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Book, Reading

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Skulls, Tvs

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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