- Why so serious?
– The Joker
- I believe whatever does not kill you, simply makes you… stranger.
– The Joker
- I took Gotham’s white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn’t hard.
You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!
– The Joker
- Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?
I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it!
You know, I just… do things.
– The Joker
- Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough, sometimes people deserve more.
Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
– Batman
- The night is darkest before the dawn.
And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
– Harvy Dent
- You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
– Harvy Dent
- Bruce Wayne: I knew the mob wouldn’t go down without a fight. But this is different, they crossed the line.
Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, Sir. You hammered then and in their desperation they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.
- You just couldn’t let me go, could you?
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
You truly are incorruptible, aren’t you?
You won’t kill me, out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness…
and I won’t kill you, because you’re just too much fun!I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
– Joker to Batman
- It’s not about what I want. It’s about what’s FAIR!
You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you you were wrong.
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced, fair.
– Two-face
- Two-Face: The Joker chose me!
Batman: Because you were the best of us! He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.
Two-Face: And he was right.
- Batman to The Joker: What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone’s as ugly as you?!
You’re alone!
- The Joker: You have all these rules, and you think they’ll save you!
Batman: I have one rule.
The Joker: Then that’s the rule you’ll have to break to know the truth.
Batman: Which is?
The Joker: The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules. And tonight, you’re gonna break your one rule!
- Batman: Then why do you want to kill me?
The Joker: I don’t, I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You… you… complete me.
- 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.
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, ah, “civilized people”?
They’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve.
– The Joker
- You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”… even if the plan is horrifying.
If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang-banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blowing up,
nobody panics, because “it’s all part of the plan”.
But I say that one little old mayor will die… well then everyone loses their minds!
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.
I’m an agent of chaos.
Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.
– The Joker
- Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money.
They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
– Alfred Pennyworth
- Salvatore Maroni: If it’s so simple, why haven’t you done it already?
The Joker: If you’re good at something, never do it for free.
- Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick.
You can’t savor all the little emotions. In… you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are.
So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did.
Would you like to know which of them were cowards?
The Joker to Det. Stephens in the interrogation room
- All you care about is money.
This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them!
– The Joker
- I took Gotham’s white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn’t hard.
You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!
– The Joker
- Bruce Wayne: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?
Alfred Pennyworth: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.
- Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were.
But I know the truth: there’s no going back. You’ve changed things… forever.
– The Joker
- You spat in the faces of Gotham’s worse criminals. Didn’t you think there might be some casualties?
Things were always going to get worse before they got better.
– Alfred Pennyworth