Movie Quotes Blog

Bill:
That, my friends, is the minority vote.

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Walter ‘Monk’ McGinn:
Well that was bloody Shakespearian. Do you know who Shakespeare is? He wrote the King James Bible.

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Amsterdam Vallon:
Jenny was a Bluget, a girl pickpocket and a turtledove. A turtledove picks out a fine house, disguises herself as a housemaid and robs you blind. It takes a lot of sand to be a turtledove.

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Bill:
WOOPSY DAISY!

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[as a man is about to be hung]

Bill:
That’s a fine locket. I’ll give you a dollar for it.

Arthur:
It was me mother’s…

Bill:
Dollar and a half?

Arthur:
Done.

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[swearing in Irish immigrants as citizens at the harbor]

Army Recruiter:
That document makes you a citizen, and this one makes you a private in the Union army. Now get out there and serve your country.

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Boss Tweed:
The appearance of law must be upheld, especially when it’s being broken.

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[Amsterdam goes to wipe blood off razor]

Priest Vallon:
No son, never. The blood stays on the blade. One day you’ll understand.

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Walter ‘Monk’ McGinn:
I’ve got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they’re for? They’re to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle, too. In Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privilege what could only be got and held by the decimation of a race. That war is a thousand years old and more. We never expected it to follow us here. It didn’t. It was waiting for us when we landed. Your father tried to carve out a corner of this land for his tribe. That was him, that was his dead rabbits. I often wondered… if he had lived a bit longer, would he have wanted a bit more?

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Bill:
Civilization is crumbling

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Qu Ran:
No matter what happens… you must let me know.

Hou Jia:
If there’s a way, I’ll send for you.

Qu Ran:
Don’t say any more. I though we have an understanding.

Hou Jia:
Nothing will change if we don’t talk about it. Nothing will ever change if we never say a word about it.

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Qu Ran:
Hou Jia has always been nice to me since we were children. But we grew up, that feeling changed. It’s became somewhat ambiguous and uncertain. Back then I really liked to go to school. And I knew when I looked at him. He’d be looking at me.

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Hou Jia:
I won’t let you die.

Qu Ran:
There’s peace after death, and people can stop hurting each other.

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Bill:
You see this knife? I’m gonna teach you to speak English with this f*cking knife!

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Bill:
Is this the Pope’s new army?

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Amsterdam Vallon:
If you get all of us together, we ain’t got a gang, we’ve got an army.

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Bill:
Don’t mind him. He used to be an Irishman.

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Happy Jack:
I’m paid to uphold the law.

Bill:
What in Heaven’s name are you talking about?

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Jack:
[St. Elsewhere’s Drs. Craig, Axelrod, Fiscus and Morrison are playing cards] Hey, we’re agents. All agents are paranoid.

Moe:
We should’ve been doctors.

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Marthe:
What’s the matter?

Jacques:
I love you. That’s the matter.

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Smiley Burnette:
I’m your huckleberry.

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Duccio:
…and the girls were left in the living room. They were both magnificent, believe me! Either one could shorten your life by 10 years.

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Bill:
Ears and noses will be the trophies of the day. But no hand shall touch him.

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Boss Tweed:
We’re burying a lot of votes tonight.

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Irish Singer:
[singing] Well, meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o’er, with our fortunes to be made, so we were thinkin’ / When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands / Saying “Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln.”/ There is nothing here but war, where the murderin’ cannons roar, and I wish I was back home in dear old Dublin.

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[after someone speaks to him in Irish Gaelic]

Boss Tweed:
They don’t speak English in New York any more?

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Manech:
Do I smell of fish?

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Ange Bassignano:
[writes] “Vengeance is pointless. Try to be happy and don’t ruin your life for me.”

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Mathilde:
[after climbing out of her wheelchair] It doesn’t just happen at Lourdes.

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Mathilde:
[peeling an apple] If I don’t break the peel, Menech is alive.

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[repeated line]

Mathilde:
Ashes to ashes. Ashes to ashes.

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