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Films — Animation

Warren T. Rat: If music be the food of love, play on, McDuff, play on.
Digit: I don't know which is worse, the music or the Shakespeare.

Films — Live-Action

Calvin Candie: You broodin' about me gettin' the best of you, huh?
Dr. Schultz: Actually, I was thinking of that poor devil you fed to the dogs today, D'Artagnan, and I was wondering what Dumas would make of this.
Calvin Candie: Come again?
Dr. Schultz: Alexandre Dumas. He wrote The Three Musketeers.
Calvin Candie: Yes, of course, Doctor.
Dr. Schultz: I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel's lead character. If Alexandre Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it.
Calvin Candie: You doubt he'd approve?
Dr. Schultz: [with barely concealed contempt] Yes, his approval would be a dubious proposition at best.
Calvin Candie: [dismissively] Soft-hearted Frenchie.
Dr. Schultz: Alexandre Dumas is black.

"Red wine with fish. That should have told me something."
James Bond, From Russia with Love

Literature

Hardestadt: Sweet Tyr, Sieg, you think you have everyone fooled. Maybe even yourself. But you're not fooling me.
Siegfried: What do you mean?
Hardestadt: For one thing? If you actually put some thought or real research into this refined gentleman act you've got going on or bothered to actually educate yourself? You'd be sipping that wine. You don't just quaff one of the rarest, most expensive wines on the planet in one go. Also, you're holding it by the bowl, not the stem. The heat from your hand will transfer to it and warm it up too much.

Music

Now Leroy, he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
He like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom Continental
He got an El Dorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
Jim Croce, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

Video Games

Genesis: Infinite in mystery is the gift of the goddess. We seek it thus and take to the sky. Ripples form on the water's surface. The wandering soul knows no rest.
Sephiroth: LOVELESS Act I.
Genesis: You remembered.
Sephiroth: How can I not, when you've beaten it into my head?

Web Original

"There actually is some good Lex stuff in this scene — Kevin Church mentioned to me that one of the few things he likes about this movie is that Lex totally prison shanks Superman with a Kryptonite shiv. It's a great little moment of brutal, dirty savagery that creeps through the exterior of this guy who is constantly seen in tailored suits."
Chris Sims on Superman Returns

Western Animation

"Ah, enjoyable, yes? It's a delicacy from a distant world, light years away from here. It is very much like Etheria. This dish is incredibly rare, as that world no longer exists. (Glimmer drops her spoon in fear) Seconds?"


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