""Get up, you deadbeat! That was the only place in town with a scintillatin' selection of polyester fashion! Where you think I'm gonna shop now? - Harley Quinn #9"

""There's no such thing as safe sex with some alien races. Think acid-for-blood. Think mate-then-kill." - Harley Quinn #15"

""If you think Arkham's scary as a doctor, you should try it as a patient." - Detective Comics #831"

""I'm crazy about... Well hey, I'm just crazy." - Gotham Girls"

""What is a friend? A single soul residing in two bodies." - Batman: Hush"

""All men by nature seek knowledge." - Batman: Hush"

""Stop me? You worms -- how can any of you stop me? Back in Florida, I was a sideshow freak -- I wrestled alligators to entertain the marks! I broke their backs with my bare hands! Then I got smart. I had the strength, I had the hate -- why shouldn't I use it to get what I wanted? "Killer Croc" -- that's what they called me. But some day, some day, I knew they'd call me king!" - Batman #358"

""You... the Bat-demon again... I wrestle you... in my nightmares." - Batman #849"

""That's the problem with the amateurs -- the histrionics. No sense of grace at all." - Birds of Prey #63"

""All your life they told you... what you cannot have. What you could not be. Because you were weak. Because you were poor. Because you were a freak. They were wrong. While they fight and kill each other over tiny shreds of territory: docks, alleys streets. You are part of something bigger. An underground empire. The largest territory in all of Gotham City. You are my eyes, above the surface. And I am the deadly jaws beneath it!" - Batman and Robin #23.4"

""They made me. Do it. Made me. Hungry. Think a' their smells. Their tastes... Hush. Riddler. Black Mask. Batman. Alla 'em. Mouth waters. Gut burns. Gonna love -- every bite." - Detective Comics #810"

""You're gonna fix me again. 'Fore I forget I was a man. And forget not to eat ya." - Detective Comics #809"

""I believe in letting people do as they wish, as do I myself. Sometimes, of course, what I wish to do is kill them and they do not wish to die. This gives life interest." - The Question #29"

""Murder by disease. No art in it. No soul. Such a decadent way to kill." - Robin (limited series) #2"

""I'm a warrior, not a murderer." - Batgirl #8"

""Karma. That I understand." - Batgirl #25"

"I care nothing for what happens or how I am remembered after death. To prove myself the best in life...that is my passion." - Batman #509"

"You are trying to understand madness with logic. This is not unlike searching for darkness with a torch."

""Perhaps death is just a little bit afraid of me." - Birds of Prey #63"

""All this ceremony, and the truth is: the body decays, the spirit is lost. It means nothing. Ashes or earth, I hardly see the significance of where they lay your corpse." - Birds of Prey #68"

""Yes. Hell. As described by Dante, with its multiple rings. Each one is guarded by a devil. And at the bottom of the universe...is a lake of ice. I am Freeze. I was chosen to guard this realm. All that enters here turns cold, becomes brittle... and breaks." - Nightwing Vol 4, #29"

""The Penguin flies ever alone!" - Detective Comics #611"

""Where's the thrill in committing the perfect crime if nobody knows it was you?" - Detective Comics #611"

""Despite the monetary wherewithal to indulge one's palate, your epicurean tastes run to the mundane. While I, on the other hand, intend to fill my gullet — until I have feted my ravenous appetite!" - Batman: Haunted Knight"

""I hate this city. Nothing grows here." - Batman: Poison Ivy"

""Some things are worth dying for, Batman." - Detective Comics #752"

"(Batman about Poison Ivy) "There's a no man's land between love and hate. Between passion and obsession -- where it's easy to lose all sense of reality -- and in doing so, lose yourself. Somewhere in that emotional minefield... Pamela Isley wanders." - Legends of the Dark Knight #43"

""I hate men. Because of what they do. They clip. They prune. They make us remake ourselves into what they want. A Madonna. A whore. A partner. A foe. And we do it. Because we need." - Solo #6"

""Hello, lover. Long time, so see." - Batman: Haunted Knight"

""May your hell be a green one!" - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #56"

""I'm an eco-terrorist of global importance. I make a contribution." - Gotham Girls"

"(To Harley) "If I hear one more word out of you, just one, I swear I'll cram fast growing cactus seeds UP YOUR TUCHUS!" - Gotham Girls"

""I have knowledge which is alien to you, for I have tasted food fresh from dark fertile soil, and I have filled my lungs with untainted air, and I have quenched my thirst with water clear as the first day of creation, and you have not -- because you can not. Those things do not exist on this world any longer. They have been destroyed by man's lust for dominance -- a lust I know well, for at times it all but consumes me. All is corrupt, all is sick, all is dying. As am I. As are you." - Batman: Birth of the Demon"

""Detective, as you know, I am cursed with a love for emptiness... desolation. It is a beauty to which my soul responds... as pure, as untainted as the deserts of my birth. I deem it my mission to purify this planet, to restore it to its former beauty... a mission I will brook no interference in." - Batman: Son of the Demon"

""In the new world, all peoples will be united, every race, every faith, every creed will find common purpose... our world is not for everyone. Only those who prove their worth will enter it. The rest will be purged... and if nine hundred and ninety-nine must perish for every one who lives... so be it!" - Azrael Vol 2, #18."

""Do you think this matters? You are but seconds in my life! Only I know humanity for what it truly is! Only I can see the grand movements of generations! Only I, undying, can live within this world and protect it from itself!" - The Shadow/Batman Vol 1 #6"

""We all have our addictions, Detective. Whisper's is me. In turn, mine is the Lazarus Pit. My daughter's is you. And yours is your holy quest. - Detective Comics Vol 1, #750"

""The only thing that thrives outside these walls are the six billion shortsighted parasites who continue to ravage our planet’s natural resources. On its own, humanity is a destructive force. It needs a master." - JLA: Tower of Babel"

""Scream. Scream. Or I will make you scream." - Batman #630"

""Fear is primal. Raw. Blood pressure increases. Veins in your skin contract. Your immune system shuts down. Even if you attempt to steel against fear... it is undeniable. Fear makes us human. That was the conclusion of Charles Darwin. Who am I to argue? I'm a man of science, too. A psychologist. But few know my academic achievements. If you know me at all, you know me as... the Scarecrow." - Green Lanterns #17"

""You break him by breaking everyone he loves and stacking them, defiled and ruined, in his grand foyer." - Secret Six #35"

""I have only one rule when dealing with the enemy. Give them nothing. Not solace, not mercy, not kindness, not torment, not provisions, and - most assuredly - not satisfaction." - Secret Six #05"

"I'm listening, and when I say I'm listening, I'm also thinking about killing you."

""I am a lawyer. Yes. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice. Insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure of the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. God bless America." - Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth"

"And I'll just wait here... because I'm known for my patience."

"(about Bruce Wayne ) "Brucie's got a lot more on the ball than you'd think. He's got a presence. He hides it under that society suave, but there's a real intensity. Only others I ever met like that were Mistah J... and Batman!" - Harley Quinn #6"

""Sometimes she smelled just like magnolias and mint leaves. And if I closed my eyes, it was almost like I was back in the bayou -- almost like I was free again." - Batman: Poison Ivy #1"

"To me the whole killing of Robin thing was probably the ugliest thing I've seen in comics, and the most cynical."

"It would be a really sleazy stunt to bring him back."

""I know an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth but gave them no bread. And she beat them and whipped them and put them to bed." - Batman: Haunted Knight"