Deliver Us from Evil Series/Funny

Mortality
"Holmes: "Watson, let no one say you do not possess a streak of deviousness in you. Tempting me with my favourite restaurant is most unfair."
 * Roughly half of the scenes with the Yarders - they really have a thing for witty banter...
 * Their very first scene is one long conversation of alternately serious and subtly comical moments.
 * So is the conversation between Lestrade, Gregson, and Morton during the Culverton Smith investigation. ("Lestrade, are you finally breaking under pressure? Truly?")
 * After Patterson takes Watson down to the mortuary, Lestrade and Gregson have a wry, brief exchange. The author admitted that the conversation was to provide a breather in an otherwise difficult-to-read chapter.
 * The narrative looking through Lestrade's point-of-view tends to be very dry.
 * Especially when he's trying to go to sleep and his wife is keeping him awake...
 * It was nearly midnight, and Geoffrey Lestrade had only just gotten into bed at last, with every intention of dropping off to sleep immediately. Alas, life rarely went the way he intended.
 * To borrow an expression from his wife — oy vey.
 * Geoffrey started counting in his head. If he got up to one hundred, he was in trouble.
 * Equally Celt, equally Jew — ever an interesting combination.
 * Wiggins has really grown up to be quite the snarker.
 * "Smith, Culverton. Quit University of London, etcetera, etcetera, monographs on Asiatic diseases — cor blimey, sounds like you — amateur student — of course — further etcetera…"
 * "That's a question as loaded as Dr. Watson's service revolver, Inspector."
 * The conversations between Holmes and Watson tend to be combination of funny and heartwarming...
 * This:

Watson: (smirks) "'All's fair in love and war,' old man.""

"Holmes: "Even I cannot always predict myself."
 * This:

Watson: (groans) "You truly are incorrigible, Holmes, do you know that?"

Holmes: "I've heard it said many times. Half from you, in fact."

Watson: "And the other half?"

Holmes: "From Mycroft.""

"Watson: "Well, I rather think you'd be proud of me, old man — I made quite the actor."
 * And last but not least:

Holmes: "What? My… good man… acting…"

Watson: "I know, I know: prevarication finds no place in my many talents." (wicked grin) "I beg to differ, O Brilliant Detective — I managed to work my way into Moriarty's own organisation.""


 * Getting back to Lestrade, this little quote is in the middle of a serious conversation: "As Sherlock Holmes could tell you, I have a hard enough time keeping up with amateur geniuses, let alone thinking like a criminal mastermind."
 * Not to mention when Lestrade doesn't recognize Watson in disguise... When Dr. Watson showed up at New Scotland Yard in his disguise, Lestrade was prepared to commit the man to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

One-Shots
"Lestrade: "Devil of a bedside manner, there, Doctor."
 * Further snark from the Yarders... heck, just call it an Organization of Snark.
 * Watson can be pretty dry, himself.

Watson: "A decade with the world's worst patient corrupted it. Now lie down!""

"Annie Lestrade: "And they say that Christmas is a time of peace on earth."
 * And the wives of the good inspectors!
 * First:

Lisbeth Gregson: (grins) "It is, and you sound like my Tobias.""

"Ellie Bradstreet: "I plead that living with a giant for a husband has skewed my view."
 * A couple of minutes later:

Annie: "Skewed your view…"

Ellie: "That's what I said."

Annie: "That was… strangely poetic, Ellie."

Ellie: "Heaven help us. Annie, do not use that in one of your poems.""