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I could just copy this whole page and paste it, but if I have to choose a single quote, it might be:
quote:I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Or maybe this one, which I don't think is listed on the previously linked page
quote:- If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all . . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little-even at the risk of being heroes. - But in reason! Haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want? - Well . . . finally . . . it isn't a matter of reason; finally it's a matter of love.
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"No matter where you go, there you are" --Buckaroo Banzai, from Buckaroo Banzai through the Eighth Dimension
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!" --Emilio Lizardo, from Buckaroo Banzai through the Eighth Dimension
"That's the beauty of it, see? It doesn't do anything!" --Someone or other, from some movie or other
"We're on a mission from God." --Elwood Blues, from The Blues Brothers
"I hate Illinois Nazis." --Jake Blues, from The Blues Brothers
"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." "And we're just the guys to do it." --Eric "Otter" Stratton and John "Bluto" Blutarsky, from Animal House
"And then... depression set in." --John Winger, from Stripes
"We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital 'A', huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts." --John Winger, from Stripes
"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" --Vic Deakins, from Broken Arrow
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Elizabeth Bennet: "Did I just agree to dance with Mr. Darcy?" Charlotte Lucas: "I dare say you will find him amiable." Elizabeth Bennet: "It would be most inconvenient since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity."
-Pride and Prejudice, 2005
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"Impressive....... Most impressive"-Darth vader-Empire
V-"Who? Who is but the form, following the function of what, and what i am is a man in a mask" Eve-"Well i can see that" V-"Of course you can, we are not commenting on your powers of observation, merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man "who" he is"-V for vendetta
"Cry havoc!! And unleash the dogs of war!!" Chang-undiscovered country
"Mr. Anderson. Welcom back. We missed you"-Mr. Smith-the matrix
"And then i sent him on that outragious crusade, ah-ha!" Prince john-Robin hood
"T'was the Drink that killed him" "Oh, i'm sorry, he was an alcoholic?" "No, he was hit by a Heinekin Truck"-Mrs Doubtfire
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Ecthalion: I was reading through to see if anyone would quote this movie. How could you only quote the first part of that conversation?
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. V: Voilą! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person? V: I am quite sure they will say so.
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actually i was going to put the rest, i just figured it woulda been bothersom for people to read.....
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