Sherlock Holmes: Brooklyn? Well, I knew a most charming man who lived there once. Uh he's now a resident in Sing Sing Prison.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Sherlock Holmes: My dear Nikolas, perhaps you don't realize that it's tea that has made the British Empire and Dr. Watson what they are today.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Sherlock Holmes: Poison is a woman's weapon.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Sherlock Holmes: Well, if one isn't willing to pay the penalty, one shouldn't play the game.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Dr. John H. Watson: Holmes? But your plane crashed!
Sherlock Holmes: It was shot down, Watson.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Dr. John H. Watson: I don't understand, Holmes! She seems such a nice girl! She sings charmingly!
Sherlock Holmes: My dear fellow, musical talent is hardly evidence of innocence. Moriarity was a virtuoso on the bassoon.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Sheila Woodbury: You are a darling.
[kisses Sherlock Holmes on the cheek and walks away]
Dr. John H. Watson: Huh. Extraordinary sight.
Sherlock Holmes: Elementary my dear Watson; and very pleasant.

- Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)