Themes

"The rest is science"

"To gild the lily"

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"

""I am not a crook" – Richard Nixon"

"You dirty rat!"

"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."

"A language is a dialect with a navy."

""The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality", or a variation on that."

""A damn close run thing" – Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, referring to his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo."

""Do you feel lucky, punk?" – Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry"

"Whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver."

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes."

"Houston, we have a problem"

""Kismet Hardy / Kiss me, Hardy" – British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson"

""The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" – Edmund Burke"

""We don't need no steenking badges!" – Bandit in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

"Spare the rod, spoil the child"

""Crisis? What crisis?" – British Prime Minister James Callaghan"

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words."

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."

"I woke up this mornin' and I got myself a beer."

"Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease."

"Let them eat cake."

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"

"Hello, Clarice."

"Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into"

"I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole court's out of order!"

"I am the devil, and I have come to do the devil's work."

"Music hath/has charms to soothe the savage beast."

"Only the Dead have seen the end of War."

"A rose by any other name smells just as sweet."

"Where art thou Romeo?"

"If you build it, they will come"

"'Step into my parlor,' said the spider to the fly."

"Brain: An apparatus with which we think we think"

"Nul points"

""Mirror, mirror, on the wall..." – The Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

"Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be him alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread."

"Luke, I am Your Father – Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"

"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink."

"Brace yourself, winter is coming"

"And I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!"

"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way."

"Eppur Si Muove (And Yet it Moves)."

"Lights, Camera, Action."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

"640k ought to be enough for anyone."

"Do you want to play a game?"