Iconic One-Liners In Film

[Ax^]

Mister rabbit says, "A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers."

 

[Humberto]

But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

 

[davesgcr]

"If your rotten window has damaged my harp ...." Hugh Griffiths , "A Run for Your Money" (1949) - very obscure.

 

[scifisam]

Are you looking at me?

You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

 

[Sue]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Suck my fat one you cheap dimestore hood

 

[Sue]

To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.

 

[DotCommunist]

I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!

 

[Cloo]

'That rug really tied the room together'

 

[sunnysidedown]

You’re a big man, but you’re in bad shape

 

[Steel Icarus]

Alright alright alright

 

[Steel Icarus]

If they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.

 

[Saul Goodman]

More than one line but essentially one line.
From 'The Longest Yard', when Samson clotheslines a prison guard during the 'football' match between the prisoners and the screws.

Samson: I think I broke his fuckin' neck!
Commentator: I think he broke his fuckin' neck!
Doctor: Get the ambulance! I think he broke his fuckin' neck.
Samson: See! I told you I broke his fuckin' neck!

 

[blairsh]

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital you send one of his to the morgue...and that's the Chicago way!

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Flags(Michael Wilding)
Very pretty sky, sir. Somebody sent me a calendar rather like that last Christmas.
Capt Kinross (Noel Coward)
Did it have a squadron of Dorniers in the upper right-hand corner?
Flags:
No, sir.
Kinross: That's where art parts company with reality.

 

[Sue]

Politics -- Conservative by nature, Labour by experience.

 

[Sue]

"I don't pray. Kneeling bags my nylons." Jan Sterling (Lorraine) in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole

'I met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time but you, you're 20 minutes.'

 

[JimW]

Coffee is for closers.

 

[Kaka Tim]

"what we have here is a failure to communicate"

 

[Kaka Tim]

"give us your jet fighters and you can have our baskets" (battle of Algiers)

 

[DaveCinzano]

“Ta sœur elle suce des Schtroumpfs!”

La Haine

Also:

“Saïd! Téma, la vache!”

 

[DaveCinzano]

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital you send one of his to the morgue...and that's the Chicago way!

Then later the call-back in Canada, prompted by the RCMP captain's “Mr Ness! I do not approve of your methods!”

“Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago!”

 

[Proper Tidy]

No, about you, what the fuck are we going to do about you, if you had any balls you'd stick a knife in the bastards who write all that bollocks, they're wankers

 

[DaveCinzano]

“HERE COME THE PAIN!”

Carlito's Way

 

[bellaozzydog]

Guns for show, knives for a pro

 

[Detroit City]

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
Dirty Harry (1971)

 

[DaveCinzano]

“He wants to kill me so bad, he can taste it! Attica! Attica! Attica!”

Dog Day Afternoon

 

[DaveCinzano]

“You look like an asshole with dentures.”

Serpico

 

[agricola]

"I'll get paid for killing, and this town is full of people who deserve to die." - Sanjuro in Yojimbo

 

[DaveCinzano]

"I'll get paid for killing, and this town is full of people who deserve to die." - Sanjuro in Yojimbo

My favourite line in Yojimbo was always this: