Best single lines of dialogue from artistic works

“I wish you well”.

This one of the truly great line - delivered perfectly by TLJ.

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.

Not really, just clarifying, the exact quote is better than the paraphrase. :wink:

“Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.”

“If you were important enough to lie to, you’d already be dead.”

Endeavour, season 5, episode 5, “Quartet”

I always thought the final line was the best one though:

“You know what yegg, I believe you.”

“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.”

There are so many good ones here, I have trouble choosing:

This sounds threatening, unless you imagine saying it to your penis when that special someone is feeling frisky.

For Eddie Dane, it could be both!

“Mink is Eddie Dane’s boy”

:wink:

Since it is Good Friday:
“He has a wife, you know…”

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?

“Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him wuffwy to the gwound!”

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.”

Good one!

Damn! Should be “Knock him wuffwy to the gwound!”

I am getting old… :confounded:

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)