'Batman': 41 Most Memorable Quotes From The Dark Knight Trilogy
#19.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
- Harvey Dent ("The Dark Knight")
#20.
"The night is darkest just before the dawn."
- Harvey Dent ("The Dark Knight")
#21.
"You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident."
- Alfred Pennyworth ("Batman Begins")
- Alfred Pennyworth ("Batman Begins")
#22.
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”
-Alfred in Batman Begins
#23.
"Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows! You think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding."
- Bane ("The Dark Knight Rises")
#24.
"Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but blinding! The shadows betray you because they belong to me. I will show you where I have made my home while preparing to bring justice. Then, I will break you. Your precious armoury, gratefully accepted. We will need it. Ah yes, I was wondering what would break first. Your spirit, or your body?"
- Bane ("The Dark Knight Rises")
The anarchy that Bane inspired and the terror that he brought to Gotham City was truly frightening. Most of all though, Tom Hardy’s portrayal of the masked villain was absolutely brilliant. Most of his dialogue was quote-worthy, but it was this line in particular that sent an extra chill down my spine. We had no idea that Bane would have actually known who Batman was. Yet as he's underground and is about to break Batman, he drops the bomb (figuratively speaking) about Batman's identity. At first it took me a while to hear it, but after watching it maybe the third time, it sank in. This quote also marks the lowest point for Batman. It doesn’t seem as if things could possibly get any worse and we are left there thinking "oh snap, this is over. Batman is done."
#25.
"If you’re good at something, never do it for free."
- The Joker ("The Dark Knight")
#26.
"Don’t talk like one of them, you’re not! Even if you’d like to be. To them, you’re just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out, like a leper. You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
- The Joker ("The Dark Knight")
#27.
"If you’re good at something, never do it for free."
-The Joker in The Dark Knight
#28.
"A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended. "
- Batman ("The Dark Knight Rises")
