Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Quotes

[Batman takes down Big Bill Dust]

Batman: Go home.

Tim: AM Home!

Batman: Go home, to Mommy.

Dickie: He ain't got one, none of us do.

[last lines]

[the World's Fair burns to ashes]

Selina Kyle: Gone, all gone.

Batman: And the hope of Gotham with it.

Dickie: It was all phony anyway. We'll make somethin' new, somethin' better.

Constable: [stops Bruce's carriage] Open up! Open up in the name of the law!

[they open the door and freeze when they see Bruce and Selina Kyle making out]

Bruce Wayne: Is there a problem, officer?

Constable: Uh... no, Mr. Wayne, we've just been, uh... you should head home. Dangerous characters on the streets tonight.

Bruce Wayne: Duly noted. Anything else, gentlemen?

Constable: Uh, no. Excuse me, sir... and madam.

[tips his hat]

Constable: Have a wonderful night.

Pamela Isley: [gasp] You gave me a start. I thought for a minute... Well, you're clearly a real gentleman. You lonely? I hate to see a man lonely. I got a generous nature. And I'm sure you're generous too. Ain't ya, mister? My room's not far.

[shrugs off her coat]

Pamela Isley: Or maybe you don't want to wait...

[the "gentleman" draws a knife]

Pamela Isley: No... No!

Batman: [after fighting off the Ripper] I hope you're not hurt, Miss...?

Selina Kyle: Damn you! You're a fool. I'll never have a better chance of stopping that butcher and you squandered it, playing the knight in shining armor! I can take care of myself.

Batman: Don't be so sure. He's more skilled than I would have thought.

Selina Kyle: I don't need or want your help. And before you gallantly offer to escort me home, let me assure you, I am quite capable of...

[She looks and sees Batman is gone]

Selina Kyle: Hmm. Well, thank you for that at least.

Selina Kyle: [wearing Bruce's top hat] I don't think the doorman was quite convinced that I'm a man.

Bruce Wayne: If he was, I'd have to have him dismissed. The Dionysus Club cannot tolerate a doorman who is blind.

Selina Kyle: You'd never do that. Have someone fired. You're too kind. I've heard.

Selina Kyle: A mutual friend told me you like to solve mysteries, ever since you were a boy. You're studying me.

Bruce Wayne: You're a fascinating subject.

Selina Kyle: And what have you learned?

Bruce Wayne: Only that you were raised in a small, regional circus, probably in a family of performers. That some traumatic event, possibly connected to the scar on your left arm that you're trying to conceal, led you to the continent, where you reinvented yourself as a night club performer.

Selina Kyle: Nothing else?

Bruce Wayne: That you take it upon yourself to act as champion of the voiceless. Which you, no doubt, learned from our mutual friend, Sister Leslie Thompkins. One of the few people who knew me as a boy.

Alfred Pennyworth: I've laid out your mourning clothes.

Bruce Wayne: I have my own manner of mourning.

Alfred Pennyworth: Revenge.

Bruce Wayne: Her blood cries out for it.

Alfred Pennyworth: Does it, sir? "Beloved, avenge not yourselves, vengeance is mine. I will repay, sayeth the Lord." She wouldn't want you to be alone right now.

Bruce Wayne: It's how I work best, Alfred... But I can pay my respects.

Alfred Pennyworth: [catching Jason trying to pick his pocket] Gotcha.

Jason: Let me go, geezer.

Alfred Pennyworth: I'm afraid you lack the subtlety to be an effective cut purse, young fellow, my lad.

[tsks]

Alfred Pennyworth: And so near a bevy of policeman, too.

Dickie: He didn't mean nothing, mister.

[to Jason]

Dickie: You idiot. You think that's how Sister Leslie would want you to act at her own funeral?

Jason: But I'm hungry!

Dickie: Mister, Jason here, he's not worth the trouble. Cut him loose, huh?

Alfred Pennyworth: Orphans.

Dickie: Sister Leslie did what she could for us. Fed us, tried to teach us right. Look, knock Jason around a little if you want, but please don't get the cops.

Alfred Pennyworth: [after a moment's thought] I occasionally have odd jobs that need doing.

[gives Dickie a card]

Alfred Pennyworth: Call upon me here. You'll not go away hungry.

[sees Bruce and Gordon approaching]

Alfred Pennyworth: Shoo!

[Alfred arrives to rescue Batman and Selina from the burning World's Fair]

Alfred Pennyworth: Help them in, lads. Lively now. Where there's smoke, there's fire. And there you'll always be, sir.

[Bruce and Selina board the carriage]

Alfred Pennyworth: Hyah!

[the carriage moves off]

Batman: [sees Dickie, Jason and Timmy] Do these belong to you, Alfred?

Alfred Pennyworth: [chuckles] Good Lord, no, sir. They belong to you.

James Gordon: So, who do you think Bruce will go out with tonight: blonde, brunette, or redhead?

Sister Leslie: You have a dirty mind, Commissioner. My money's on blonde.