Batman villains (comics)

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

""Immediately, I could no longer stand normal temperatures! I could survive only in a sub-zero environment! I lived in virtual isolation ever since -- separated from a world that can't help me and doesn't care. You spent a lot of time making sure I remained behind bars, Batman... did it ever occur to you to use your intellect to free me from the prison of this helmet? To help me rejoin the human race? To cure me? You turned your back on me like everyone else! Now... you'll pay!" - Detective Comics #595"

""That winter, as I watched my "friends" run to their families waiting to take them home for the holidays, I learned the most painful lesson of all... that I had become an embarrassment to my parents, a mistake to be filed away and forgotten. Somehow I knew even then I was destined to live outside humanity, a lonely observer of a world whose warmth would never touch me." - Batman: Mister Freeze #1"

""Of course, I know about bad luck... that's one of the lessons that this city teaches us all, eventually." - Gotham Central #1"

""Time for you is now frozen. Your world will remain at absolute zero. No pain. No sensation. No regrets. God, how I envy you." - Robin Vol 4, #69"

""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"

""A perfect crime is a work of art, a thing of beauty, and a joy forever, to paraphrase the Bard!" - 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"

""Ahh... the Batman. While I have an affection for most flying creatures... the winged rat is not among them." - Batman: Haunted Knight"

"(to Batman and Robin) "Why can't you two get a day job?" - Batman #572"

""Fortunately the Penguin is a wise old bird — never one to put all his eggs into one basket." - Detective Comics #824"

"(To Black Canary) "Look at me. No woman in the world ever gets drunk enough, and believe me, I've tried." - Birds of Prey Secret Files & Origins"

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

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

""I don't do that, Harley. I don't save people. I'm poison, remember?" - Harley Quinn #13"

""I have no interest in your deals. No interest in you, in any of you, on the outside. This park, this is Gotham now... its future. Reclaimed by nature, pure without mankind's assaults. It is a sanctuary now, and I am guardian. I will not let it be defiled. Not by anyone. Certainly not by you. Leave." - Shadow of the Bat #88"

""Suicidal men adore me." - Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows"

""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"

"(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"

""You're always responsible for the things you create." - Batman: Poison Ivy"

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

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

""Thoughtless. Worthless. Stupid. Man." - Batman: Hush"

""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"

"(To Harley) "Did you order explosives online again?" - Gotham Girls"

"(To Harley) "Will 'sorry' bring back my beloved barrel cactus?" - Gotham City Sirens #5"

"(To Harley) "Now if I could have a second of what I laughably refer to as your attention..." Harley and Ivy #3"

""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"

""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"

""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"

""This is a set-back, not a defeat. The advantage is mine. I have eternity... and Batman must win every single time... while I need win but once." - Batman Vol 1, #709"

""The League of Assassins is my legacy. It seems only fair that I have everyone that Bruce Wayne ever loved, everything he ever built, destroyed. The Batman will have no legacy". - Red Robin: Collision"

""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"

""Whoever said a picture was worth a thousand words... is about to see just how badly he miscounted." - JLA: Tower of Babel"

""Everything I have done, I do for the greater good." - Batman: Death and the Maidens"

""Life's full of questions, isn't it, Batman? Though, naturally, I prefer to think of them as riddles." - Batman: Dark Knight, Dark City, part 1"

""Riddle me this, What's black and blue and bleeds profusely?" - Gotham City Sirens"

""I used to be a somebody in this town. Now everybody has a gimmick. I was going to show them all. And I did." - Batman: Hush"

""The Lazarus Pit gives you a unique kind of... clarity. Riddle me this: Who is that under Batman's mask? And now, the world is my oyster. Right, Bruce?" - Batman: Hush"

""Question: How many times have you beaten me? Answers: Five. Ten. A hundred! But... question: What is Batman's greatest defeat? Answer: The death of Robin. Didn't like having your nose rubbed in it, did you?" - Batman: Hush"

""That is a riddle, isn't it?" - Batman: Hush"

""The mastermind always wants more. It's criminal nature." - Detective Comics #828"

""It's a mystery. Broken into a jigsaw puzzle. Wrapped in a conundrum. Hidden in a Chinese box. A riddle." - Batman: The Long Halloween"

""When does a killer... not kill?"- Batman: The Long Halloween"

""You don't understand... I really didn't want to leave you any clues. I really planned never to go back to Arkham Asylum. But I left you a clue anyway. So I... I have to go back there. Because I might need help. I... I might actually be crazy." - Batman: Gotham Adventures"