Comic Quotes

A perfect Earth doesn't NEED a Superman.

 

"I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless Violence." -Robot Man

 

"THIEVES, the goddamn LOT of you! THIEVES AND LEECHES! ****ing VAMPIRES sucking the will from people who's ONLY goddamn crimes were to be FRIGHTENED and TIRED! And you don't HELP them! You don't LISTEN to them! They get no TRUTH from you! All you do is SCARE them with stories of SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST! And you bastards are WINNING! Hundreds MORE of youe every DAY! Getting away with it in a place so noisy that no one could hear the truth if it were EVER told, and I can't fight you ALONE, you ****S, couldn't when I was a kid and my dad went cultist and I can't NOW! All I can do is TELL THE TRUTH!!!!"



-Spider Jerusalem on cults and organized religion in Transmetropolitan.

 

IMO by far that's the best quote EVER

 

It's good, but there have been better.

 

I've also always been partial to

"I believe in Gotham City....."

I'm a fan of simple but effective quotes.

 

"One day I'm going to drop a bomb on this city. A contraceptive bomb." - Spider Jerusalem

"By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead." - Spider Jerusalem

 

"There. There you have it. The wand. The symbol of God considered as male; of ultimate masculine principle....The symbol of the Magician, of the will, of that which penatrates the mystery. Maybe if you try imagininig it bigger. And Glowing." - Faust (getting naked and showing Promethea his naughty parts.)

I used to think wizards and Magicians and crap using wands was stupid...But I swear to God, I read this, and I never looked at Harry Potter the same way again.

 

"Surrender? Surrender?! You think this letter on my head stands for France?!"
-Ultimate Captain America

 

They say that when you kill a man you not only take away what he was but all he will ever be

Hello. I came to talk. I've been thinking lately. About you and me. About what's going to happen to us, in the end. We're going to kill each other, aren't we? Perhaps you'll kill me. Perhaps I'll kill you. Perhaps sooner. Perhaps later

I'm Superman. I can do anything

My parents...taught me a different lesson -- lying on this street -- shaking in deep shock -- dying for no reason at all -- they showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to

this one is from Hellboy Junior
GOTT IN HIMMEL!YOU CAN'T HIT A JET WIT A SPEAR!ZIS IS NOT A SERGEANT ROCK COMICS BOOK!VE ARE IN HELL!!

 

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am the most evil bastard in the valley." - John Constantine

 

Save me a bullet. Go towards the light.

Frank Castle

 

Clark in response to Pastor Linquist's statement about when the Almighty sets a corse there's nothing any man can do about it.

"But what if there was one?"

Total Jesus iconography there.

When Batman races to save Tim's dad,

"Not again."

So sad.

Others I like have been mentioned, but Superman's speech at the end of Kingdom Come is pretty inspiring.

 

one of my favorite alfred remarks is in the robin birthday issue

alfred brings down a cake into the cave and then bats starts moaning about the smoke messing up an analysis when tim blows out the candles, alfred then lets loose with:

my GOD, man

i can only hope that master tim wished for you to journey to the wizard to procure yourself a heart

 

nice, that was sweet...


My favourite just for the presence is after Hal jordan snaps sinestro's neck, he just looks down on his corpse and says with no remorse

'Damn YOu!'

brilliant line, brilliant pan, brilliant arc

 

"I'm not stuck in here with you. YOU are stuck in here with ME."

 

OWA TAGO SIAM!!

 

"Where to buddy?"
"Now there's a question. First, I want to walk into a bar and drink it. And then I'm going to start a fight with five men and win. And then I am going to make use of a truly staggering number of prostitues - some of whom I may have once been married to. Following which, I will buy drugs. I will, in fact, show them a large pillowcase and instruct them to fill it with drugs.

...And I'm putting it all on the expense account."

-Mitchel Royce, super editor

 

This one struck me as pretty powerful,

Maxwell Lord: "It's time to save the world from itself."

That's basically the motivation behind all of the events of the Infinite Crisis for Alex, Superboy and Max.

 

"They need someone to inspire them. And let's face it, Superman, the last timey you inspired anybody was when you were dead."

 

LMFAO I forgot about that quote that is a classic line there.

 

"We're the Justice League. You're a joke. And believe me...it hurts when we laugh."
-Black Canary

And more of an exchange, yet classic:

Green Arrow: "Nice to meet you, pretty bird. Catch the size of that shaft, did you?"
Black Canary: "Keep it in your quiver, Trickshot. *Jerk.*"
Green Arrow: "*Score.*"