# Best single lines of dialogue from artistic works **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111 "2023-02-20T22:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/121 "2023-04-04T15:47:38Z")
“I wish you well”. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/122 "2023-04-04T18:28:09Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > “If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.” This one of the truly great line - delivered perfectly by TLJ. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/123 "2023-04-04T18:30:41Z")
Hitman at Verna’s: If I tell you, how do I know you won’t kill me? Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying, I wouldn’t get to kill you _then_. Where’s Leo? ~ Millers Crossing ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/124 "2023-04-04T19:04:44Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > "Because if I kill you now and find you’re lying to me I won’t get to kill you then.” > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Hitman at Verna’s: If I tell you, how do I know you won’t kill me? > > Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying, I wouldn’t get to kill you _then_. Where’s Leo? > > ~ Millers Crossing Seems there’s an echo in here. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/125 "2023-04-04T20:08:58Z")
Not really, just clarifying, the exact quote is better than the paraphrase. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/126 "2023-04-04T23:40:01Z")
“Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/127 "2023-04-05T02:57:31Z")
_“If you were important enough to lie to, you’d already be dead.”_ _Endeavour_, season 5, episode 5, “Quartet” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/128 "2023-04-05T14:18:35Z")
I always thought the final line was the best one though: “You know what yegg, I believe you.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/129 "2023-04-05T20:09:37Z")
“I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place and I am gonna have fun doing it.” ETA: Another good Eddie Dane line… “Shut up! Or maybe you still got too many teeth.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/130 "2023-04-05T20:20:43Z")
There are so many good ones here, I have trouble choosing: > **[Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/characters/nm0188186)** > > Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) Criswell as Criswell - Narrator ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/131 "2023-04-05T20:20:48Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > “I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place and I am gonna have fun doing it.” This sounds threatening, unless you imagine saying it to your penis when that special someone is feeling frisky. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/132 "2023-04-05T22:26:13Z")
For Eddie Dane, it could be both! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/133 "2023-04-06T14:16:38Z")
“Mink is Eddie Dane’s boy” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wincerind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@Wincerind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wincerind)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/134 "2023-04-07T21:03:21Z")
Since it is Good Friday: “He has a wife, you know…” ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/135 "2023-04-07T21:06:29Z")
Oh, we’re going there, are we? > Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/136 "2023-04-07T21:15:10Z")
“Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him wuffwy to the gwound!” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/137 "2023-04-07T21:30:32Z")
A good one from an episode of BoJack Horseman I watched the other night: “When you look at everything through rose colored lenses, all the red flags just look like flags.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/138 "2023-04-07T21:36:27Z")
Good one! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/139 "2023-04-07T21:40:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him wuffwy to the gwound!” Damn! Should be “_Knock_ him wuffwy to the gwound!” I _am_ getting old… 😖 ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111/140 "2023-04-07T21:59:23Z")
_I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain._ From Frank Herbert’s “Dune” (If it can be considered a single line) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-of-dialogue-from-artistic-works/980111.md?page=8)