The Spirit Quotes

  • [from trailer]

    The Spirit: My city, I can not deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover, and I am her Spirit.

  • Ellen Dolan: You're in love with every women you meet, Mr. Spirit. You say lovely things to all of us and you mean every word you say.

  • Silken Floss: What a fine detective. You followed the breadcrumbs right to us.

  • Silken Floss: The Octopus always finds his nemesis so distracting.

  • Sand Saref: If this is the wrong box I'll kill you myself!

  • The Spirit: I've known some pretty strange women in my time but this one, she's got the final word on strange.

  • The Octopus: What is it with you and women?

  • The Octopus: Spirit, we're two of a kind, you and me!

  • The Octopus: Come on! Toilets are always funny!

  • Sand Saref: Shut up and bleed!

  • The Spirit: I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead.

  • The Spirit: There probably isn't a law in the books that you wouldn't break.

    Sand Saref: Tell me, do I look like a good girl?

  • The Spirit: Somebody get me a tie! I don't care what kind, it sure as hell better be red!

  • Commissioner Dolan: Is every goddamn woman in this goddamn hell hole out of her goddamn mind?

    Morgenstern: No, sir. We're just equipped.

  • [last lines]

    The Spirit: She is the love of my life. And I am her spirit.

  • The Octopus: I'm the Octopus, I got eight of everything.

  • The Spirit: [the Octopus has demonstrated a serum on a cat, muffins] The cat... she is all the reason I need. I will kill you.

  • The Spirit: This is for Sand!

    [hits The Octopus]

    The Spirit: This is for me!

    [hits The Octopus]

    The Spirit: And this is for Muffins!

    [roundhouse kicks The Octopus into a pillar with a Nazi Eagle on top]

    The Octopus: Is that it?

    [Giant marble eagle falls on The Octopus]

  • [repeated line]

    Pathos, etc.: We was watching.

  • The Spirit: [Wakes up after being unconscious] What smells dental?

    The Spirit: [Looks around at Nazi decorations, and realizes he's tied to a Dentist chair] Dental and Nazi. Great.

  • Young Sand: I... hate... cops!

  • The Octopus: I don't like egg on my face.

  • Silken Floss: On your knees, then!

  • The Octopus: [Looking at footman] That's damn weird.

  • Liebowitz: [Spirit hangs from his cape] You will believe a man can't fly.

  • Lorelei Rox: You're so close, you'll have me forever.

  • Silken Floss: We knew there had to be a better way of keeping someone alive other than cutting them up like some free-range chicken.

    The Octopus: Eurgh. Free-range chickens with their big brown ugly-ass eggs. They piss me off. Every time I think about those big brown eggs they piss. Me. Off.

    Silken Floss: Or pills.

  • [repeated line]

    Pathos, etc.: Silken Floss is the most beautiful woman ever!

  • The Octopus: I had you beat, just like eggs.

    The Spirit: The hell you did!

  • The Spirit: She provides for me, my city does. She gives me everything I need.

  • The Spirit: All the enemy has is gun to knives. I have the entire city as my weapon.

  • [On the Subject of Demi-Gods]

    Silken Floss: Now the greatest of them all was Heracles.

    The Octopus: And we found his ass! Well his blood anyway... he left some blood.

  • The Octopus: How can I get anything done with all this time on my hands?