It has always been the prerogative of children and half-whits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor

-- Sandman "The Kindly Ones"


[Persian Messenger] Madman. You are a madman. No man -- persian or greek-- no man threatens a messenger. This is blasphemy .. This is madness
[King Leonidas] This is Sparta.

--Frank Miller "300"


It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

-- The Joker "Arkham Asylum"


There comes a time skeeter ol' boy .. when you just run out of America.

-- Preacher "Salvation"


[Sextor Furnival] I think maybe the whole world's gone mad
[Death] Uh-huh. It's always been like this. You probably just don't get out much.

-- Neil Gaiman "Death:The high cost of living"


If voting could change things ... it would be illegal

-- Graffiti (Athens)


[Death] You are utterly the stupidest most self-centered appallingest excuse for an anthropomorphic personification on this or any other plane. An infantile adolescent, pathetic specimen !

--Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes"


[Dream] I do not want a grape
[Desire] I could make you want one .
[Dream] Careful, sibling.

-- Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Seasons of Mists"


[Destiny] Talk further sister? There is no need. He is going to Hell. It has begun.

-- Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Seasons of Mists"


[Hob Gobbling] To absent friends, lost loves, old Gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. That was a bloody peculiar toast. I don't know why I said that stuff... Ah well, you say strange things in dreams...

-- Neil Gaiman "The Sandman : Season of Mists"


Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

-- Milton "Paradise Lost"


[Lucifer] All right. I admit it. He's got a point. The sunsets are bloody marvelous, you old bastard. Satisfied.

-- Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Season of Mists"


[Lucifer] "The devil made me do it". I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

-- Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Season of Mists"


[Leonidas's wife] Spartan.
[Leonidas] Yes, my lady?
[Leonidas's wife] Come back with your shield -- or on it.
[Leonidas] Yes, my lady.

-- Frank Miller "300"


After the first morning of fighting at Thermopylae (The Hot Gates) Leonidas is to meet Xerxes

[Xerxes] Leonidas. Let us reason together. It would be a regrettable waste -- it would be nothing short of madness -- were you and your valiant troops to perish. All because of a simple avoidable misunderstanding.
[Leonidas] Do not lose sleep worrying over us. We are having the time of our lives.
[Xerxes] Brave words. Spartan words. It is a fascinating tribe. There is much our cultures could share.
[Leonidas] We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

-- Frank Miller "300"


If we shadows have offended, think of this and all is mended: that you have but slumber'd here, while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding than a dream. Gentles -- do not reprehend. If you pardon -- we will mend. And -- as I am an honest puck, if we have unearned luck now to'scape the serpents' tongue, we will make amends, ere long. Else the puck a liar call. So good night unto you all. Give me your hands if we be friends and Robin shall restore amends

-- William Shakespeare "A Midsummer's Night Dream"


We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

-- Tyler Durden "The Fight Club"


I wanted to destroy something beautiful

-- Narrator "The Fight Club"


Fabrizio: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

-- The Godfather


Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed!
Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
-- The Godfather

Sal Tessio: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
-- The Godfather

Don Corleone: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've outfoxed Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.
-- The Godfather

Tom Hagen: Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?

-- The Godfather


Michael Corleone: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head while my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.

-- The Godfather


Tony Montana: All I have in this world is balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. You understand?

-- Scarface


Lorenzo, a.k.a. Shakes: I didn't know you like pigeons so much.
King Benny: I like anything that don't talk.
-- Sleepers

Parting is such sweet sorrow dearest. Still you can't say we didn't show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there. In the asylum. Just don't forget if it ever gets too tough .. there's always a place for you here.

-- The Joker "Arkham Asylum : A serious house on a serious earth"


"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

- unknown


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

- Voltaire


"There is no sincerer love than the love of food. "

- George Bernard Shaw


You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "

- Al Capone


"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "

- Niccolo Machiavelli


"Woman was God's second mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche


"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair


"He would make a lovely corpse."

- Charles Dickens


"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "

- Oscar Wilde


So I said, "Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, He ruined a perfectly good arsehole."

A male stripper, in "The Sandman:Brief Lives"


I could never again be an angel... Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.

Lucifer, in "The Sandman:Season of Mists"


"The only way to understand humans is not to be human."

- Ein Steppenwolf
( suggested by Constantinos Skordis)


Jack Grimaldi: People think that Hell is fire and brimstone and the Devil poking you in the butt with a pitchfork, but it's not. Hell is when you should have walked away, but you didn't

Romeo Is Bleeding


"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

- Calvin; Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson


"Just because I don't CARE doesn't mean I don't UNDERSTAND."

- Homer Simpson; The Simpsons


"There must be a Hell. There must be a place for the demons; a place for the damned. Hell is Heaven's reflection. It is Heaven's shadow. They define each other. Reward and Punishment; hope and despair. There must be a Hell, for without Hell, Heaven has no meaning."

- The Angel Remiel; Sandman #27


"Slow day, eh God?"

- Al Bundy; Married...with Children


"Have gone to commit suicide. Intend to return from grave Friday. Feed cat."

- A memo left by Spider Jerusalem; Transmetropolitan #16 - Warren Ellis


"I tell myself it's not the fall. Falling doesn't hurt... it's when you stop."

- John Constantine; Sandman #3


"I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no laws nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity. All things are possible here and I am what madness has made me
Whole
And complete
And free at last."

- Amadeus Arkham; Batman: Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison


"The man (or woman) who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready."

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1922)


"traveller, there are no paths, paths are made by walking".

katha upanishad


Eady: You travel a lot?
Neil McCauley: Yeah.
Eady: Does it make you lonely?
Neil McCauley: I am alone, I'm not lonely.

Heat


Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a normal life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?

Heat


McCauley: A guy once told me, "Do not have any attachments, do not have anything in your life you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner."

Heat


Justine Hanna: Being married is about sharing. This is not sharing. This is leftovers.
Vincent Hanna: Okay, you want me to share with you? Let's share. Honey, I just killed a man who fried his baby in his microwave because it was crying too loud. Okay, let's share it!

Heat


[Delirium] : His madness ... His madness keeps him sane.
[Sandman] : And do you think he is the only one, my sister ?

-- Sandman "Fables and Reflections"


"There is a man...playing a violin...and the strings...are the nerves in his own arm.
A twisted soul, the mortar...Despair, the bricks...
To build a temple to Sadness."

--James O'Barr, The Crow


Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels
were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a
grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command
with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael Corleone: It means they could win.

-- The Godfather II


Funny, she looks smaller from outside her head.

-- Delirium, The Sandman: Brief Lives


It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

-- Rose Walker, The Sandman:The Doll's House


What power would hell have if those imprisoned there could not dream of heaven?

-- Dream, The Sandman:Preludes and Nocturnes


Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit.
'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.'

Roman Soldier translated by Dream, in The Wake


Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

An old man, The Sandman: The Doll's House


Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: Easy. I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

-- As Good As It Gets


Carol: When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

-- As Good As It Gets


Melvin Udall : Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.

-- As Good As It Gets


Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchese, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.
Don Lucchese: You understand guns?
Vincent Mancini: Yes.
Don Lucchese: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

-- The Godfather


"Λονδίνο Άμστερνταμ ή Βερολίνο,
έχεις ξεχάσει που ακριβός θέλεις να πάς."

--Τρύπες, "Ταξιδιάρα Ψύχη"


"Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind."

Vincent to group in "The Godfather" (Part III)


"The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends."

Altobello to Vincent in "The Godfather" (Part III)


I think someone should just take this city and just...just flush it down
the fuckin' toilet.

Deniro as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver"


Eldon Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.
Roy Batty: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.

--From "Blade Runner"


Madeleine: If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

-- Quills


Marquis de Sade: Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

-- Quills


Dr. Royer-Collard: You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury.

-- Quills


Marquis de Sade: I've been to hell young man, you've only read about it.

-- Quills


Marquis de Sade: Welcome to our humble madhouse, Doctor. I trust you'll find yourself at home.

-- Quills


" Η Ζωή είναι έν' αγγούρι"

-- Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος, θα γυρίσει ο τροχός ή λένε πώς οι φτwχοί ή απ'την ζωή στο θάνατο είναι ένα μονοπάτι. Από το άλμπουμ "Zorba The Freak"


Private Joker: Are those... live rounds?
Private Gomer Pyle: Seven-six-two millimeter. Full metal jacket.

-- Full Metal Jacket


Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Drill Instructor: There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless.

-- Full Metal Jacket


Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Drill Instructor: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?

-- Full Metal Jacket


"Mio padre se chiamo Antonio Andolini, e quisto e per ti!"

--De Niro in The Godfather (Part II)


" The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision"

--Neil Gaiman. The Sandman "Endless Nights"


"Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all."

--Neil Gaiman. The Sandman "Endless Nights"


[Kurtz]: We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

-- Marlon Brando "Apocalypse Now"


"Do not tempt a woman; she will kill you faster than a man, and for less, though she will weep afterward."

--unknown


"The quickest way to a man's heart is not through the stomach but through his chest, with an axe."

--unknown


"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

--unknown


"Pessimism is just an ugly word for pattern recognition."

--unknown


"Evolution: Making the human race smarter... one idiot at a time"

--unknown


"Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die."

--Anonymous


"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

--Friedrich Nietzsche


"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."

--Nguyen Co Thatch (Vietnamese foreign minister)


"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

--Richard Harkness


"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

--Abraham Lincoln


"Don't think of it as being outnumbered, think of it as having a wide target selection."

--anonymous


"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

--Mark Twain


[God] You have been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.
[Lucifer] That's what desire is. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.

-- Lucifer "All we need of Hell" Mike Carey.


[Mr. Easterman] They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.

-- Lucifer "Children and Monsters" Mike Carey