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Nov 15, 2011
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I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter tied to this -ing chair!

The Thing (1982).
 
Nov 26, 2011
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A line that impressed me deeply and 'nicely' shows the insanities of war is from Apocalypse Now.
"We train young men to drop fire on people,but their commanders won't allow them to right f*ck on their aeroplanes...because...it's obscene!"
Marlon Brando did the voice very well at least. :laugh:
To stay in the gin-joint :rolleyes: arena i always got a laugh out of :
"They think i'm the doctor,they put me in charge of medication." by Tommy Chong in Nice Dreams(http://youtu.be/WISFFhU9hVc. :laugh:
One old favourite is quite obvious,but what the....

:mrgreen:
 
Nov 25, 2010
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Michael Caine in The Italian Job - the classic "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
and I'm also fond of "You lost him his no-claims bonus!" (after the Mafia had bulldozed his sports cars down the side of a cliff)
and the final line "Hold on lads - I think I've got an idea... err..."
 
Nov 21, 2010
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:laugh:

Going back to Jurassic Park again..

"Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth..." :laugh:
 

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This one's from a video game (Kingdom Hearts II), but it's spoken by Christopher Lee. Not an awesome line, but a rather cruel line that says a lot about the character, when another character (the character you're playing as) tells him he has a right to know about things.

DiZ: A Nobody doesn't have a right to know. Nor does it even have the right to be.
 
Nov 25, 2010
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Luke Skywalker, unarmed, captured, handcuffed, walking the plank over a bottomless pit: "This is your last chance Jabba: surrender now or face the consequences!"

(or words to that effect)

Darth Vader: "I find your lack of faith... disturbing."
 

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And how can we forget the oldie but goodie, Hannibal Lecter dismissing Clarice Starling's attempts to quantify his madness:

Hannibal: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
 

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Another Doctor Who one. In one story, Davros has installed himself as a famous doctor, curing all sorts of diseases at a suspended animation repository. In truth, he has turned many of those present into Daleks, and the others he used as a form of protein concentrate to resolve a famine in that part of the galaxy. The Doctor, naturally horrified, asks Davros is he told those who enjoyed his protein concentrate whether they were eating their own dead relatives. Davros' reply is priceless:

Davros: Certainly not! That would have created what I believe is termed 'consumer resistance'.
 
Nov 21, 2010
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All good ones!

Jurassic Park had quite a lot of good lines.

We could just put up the whole scripts to the Life of Brian :laugh:

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped- Groucho Marx
 

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