Greatest Line In Media

[Evil Smurf]

"Are you dense? Are you retarded? I'm the godman Batman!" - Batman

 

[Nekron_X]

"Swords are not enough to win this battle? What you face now is an unlimited number of them:
peerless weapons, wielded by heroes and villains, the great and the small alike.
An unlimited armory of blades stands before you."

"I will kill. I will let live. I will harm and heal. None will escape me. None will escape my sight.
Be crushed.
I welcome those who have grown old and those who have lost.
Devote yourself to me, learn from me, and obey me.
Rest. Do not forget song, do not forget prayer, and do not forget me.
I am light and relieve you of all your burdens.
Do not pretend. Retribution for forgiveness, betrayal for trust, despair for hope, darkness for light,
dark death for the living.
Relief is in my hands. I will add oil to your sins and leave a mark.
Eternal life is given through death.
Ask for forgiveness here. I, the incarnation, will swear,
Kyrie eleison".

"i am the bone of my sword.
steel is my body, fire is my blood.
i have created over a thousand blades.
unkown to death, nor known to life.
i have withstood pain to create many weapons.
yet, these hands will never hold anything.
and so as i pray, unlimited blade works!"

and lastly:
"I'll show you. This is what it means to kill something."

oh! one more:
"It's not cheating. It's creative problem solving."

 

[an annoyed writer]

"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here. Welcome to the edge."
-Eliza Kassan, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

One of my favorite lines because it's got utility and can give gravitas and weight to a good conversation, provided it's properly used.

 

[Dfskelleton]

*I thought that O'Brien and Winston's dialogue swapping from 1984 led to some great lines:
"Does Big Brother exist?"
"Of course he does, next question."
"No, I mean... does he exist in the same way that you and I exist?"
"You do not exist."

*I would list some lines from Andrew Ryan and SHODAN, but they both have such great lines and amazing voice actors/actresses that I couldn't pick just a few.

*Kurtz's last lines from Heart of Darkness (or, if you prefer, Apocalypse Now). Simple, but very powerful.
"The horror... the horror..."

*AM's speech from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. I could actually type it from memory because of how many times I've read that speech, but I don't really feel like typing the whole thing out right now.

*"You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK!"

 

[ultrachicken]

Some of my absolute favourite lines come from the same place:

"There was once talk of a wind farm out here, away from the rage and intolerance of the masses. The sea, they said, is too rough for the turbines to stand. They clearly never came here to experience the becalming for themselves. Personally I would have supported it, turbines would be a fitting contemporary refuge for a hermit; the revolution and the permanence."

"All night the buoy has kept me lucid. I sat, when I was at the very edge of despair, when I thought I would never unlock the secret of the island, I sat at the edge and I watched the idiot buoy blink through the night. He is mute and he is retarded and he has no thought in his metal head but to blink each wave and each minute aside until the morning comes and renders him blind as well as deaf mute. In many ways we have much in common."

"What charnel house lies at the foot of this abyss? How many dead shepherds would fill this hole?"

Easy to guess if you've played it.

Is that Dear Esther?
That particular dialogue didn't play when I watched a playthrough, but I hear it changes every time, and the talk of hermits, the ocean, and the general writing style definitely fits that game.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Some of my absolute favourite lines come from the same place:

"There was once talk of a wind farm out here, away from the rage and intolerance of the masses. The sea, they said, is too rough for the turbines to stand. They clearly never came here to experience the becalming for themselves. Personally I would have supported it, turbines would be a fitting contemporary refuge for a hermit; the revolution and the permanence."

"All night the buoy has kept me lucid. I sat, when I was at the very edge of despair, when I thought I would never unlock the secret of the island, I sat at the edge and I watched the idiot buoy blink through the night. He is mute and he is retarded and he has no thought in his metal head but to blink each wave and each minute aside until the morning comes and renders him blind as well as deaf mute. In many ways we have much in common."

"What charnel house lies at the foot of this abyss? How many dead shepherds would fill this hole?"

Easy to guess if you've played it.

Is that Dear Esther?
That particular dialogue didn't play when I watched a playthrough, but I hear it changes every time, and the talk of hermits, the ocean, and the general writing style definitely fits that game.

Bingo.

If you haven't played it, it's well worth a playthrough. Sometimes I don't get these lines either, or a combination of some of these and others. The more you hear the more you think you have a handle on the story, until another line comes along and throws that theory out the window.

 

[Xaio30]

"Remember every blight day I ever stopped you, and then, AND THEN... Do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first."

It starts at 1:20

 

[VeneratedWulfen93]

Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops
-Rogal Dorn

 

[Nouw]

"Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me."
-Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino.​

 

[Erja_Perttu]

To be or not to be. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by apposing end them, to die, to sleep.

Sort of easy, but lets see how long it takes for someone to get it.

Would that happen to be Hamlet? Ha, I act as if I don't know, but it's probably my favourite Shakespeare play.

Spoiler: There's a Bruce Springsteen song called the River, that has this line, and it goes:

Now these memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse. Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse-

It always gets me.

But the best line, or rather collection of lines I've ever heard in any media, ever, are these-

 

[The Funslinger]

"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."

I laughed incredibly loudly when I got to that bit in New Vegas.

OT: "I hope you've got your wallet. Cos the rent in Hell gets paid in advance!"

 

[MardukGKoB]

Your kung fu is useless... as well as obsolete.

Never heard of you. I don't read the funny papers.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

I don't need luck, I have ammo.

-Grunt, Mass Effect

 

[thesilentman]

"See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."

That's mine.

 

[Surpheal]

"For the love of God, Montressor!"
"Yes," I said,"for the love of God."

Another, you ask? Okay, but I can't remember the name of the movie this is from. All that I can remember is that it was about 4 friends, post WW2, building a homemade rocket. The scene is the main characters father talking to the abusive step father of one of his friends. That is about all I recall.

"He gets a bruise, you get a scar. He gets a limp, you get crutches."

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

I think this is the single greatest line in any movie ever. It's from Doctor Strangelove, in case you didn't know.