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This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.

Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/).

Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread in the Image Pickin' forum.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM

isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#14151: Aug 5th 2025 at 2:47:57 AM

[up]Hey, no harm done. You asked an honest question and got an honest answer. Welcome to the community.

isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#14152: Aug 5th 2025 at 8:03:29 AM

For Bungling Inventor, what about this. I believe it's from Hogfather.

Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain. It amounted to pretty much the same thing.
About B. S. Johnson, Hogfather

If too long, then what about the final two sentences.

Edited by isoycrazy on Aug 5th 2025 at 11:07:37 AM

ShaiPa Since: Aug, 2013
#14153: Aug 6th 2025 at 4:04:09 PM

[up] I would start at "Everything he built worked."


Bumping from previous page

AutumnLeaves Since: Mar, 2014
#14154: Aug 6th 2025 at 4:54:14 PM

The current quote for Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice massively spoils The Reveal of Sharp Objects.

(I've been trying to think up a fitting replacement, but everything I can remember would likewise be spoileriffic).

Ed.: Is it allowed to suggest quotes from one's own work? I've got one from my Series Fic that might just fit. (In canon, descriptions of Tyene's girliness and hints of her deadliness are mostly scattered, IIRC, so I'm not sure if a concise quote could be found there)

The Sand Snakes were unpredictable, especially Tyene, with her quotes from The Seven-Pointed Star and her elegant manners and her fondness for deadly poisons. <...> In the meantime, Tyene was smiling happily as she pondered what to wear for her wedding. She thought of maybe hiding a couple of poisons in her jewelry, as an additional test for her bridegroom, but, unusually, decided against it. Weddings always made people too relaxed, and she didn't really want to kill Roose Bolton. At least, not yet, in the foreseeable future.
"Two Goblets", Untold, Retold

Edited by AutumnLeaves on Aug 6th 2025 at 3:32:20 PM

N1KF Alleged Number1KirbyFan (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Alleged Number1KirbyFan
#14155: Aug 7th 2025 at 9:12:39 PM

The quote for Potty Dance is really long, four paragraphs (seventeen lines) of lyrics.

"(Hit it!)
Step to the left, now step to the right.
Put your knees together and squeeze 'em tight!
Keep your arms moving side to side!
Try to hold it in 'till it's time to ride!

Knock knock, let me in!
Knock knock, let me in, I gotta go (uh)!
Knock knock, let me in!
Knock knock, let me in, I gotta go!

Keep moving now! Don't you stop!
Hold it in 'till it's time to drop!
'Lemme in before I pop!'
Too late, gotta grab a mop.

Knock knock, let me in!
Knock knock, let me in, I gotta go (uh)!
Knock knock, let me in!
Knock knock, let me in, I GOTTA GO!"

I'm guessing it should be fine to remove the first line and second half, so it's down to two paragraphs at the very most.

FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
#14156: Aug 7th 2025 at 9:22:51 PM

[up] Keeping just the first paragraph would work, since it's the only one describing the actual dance.

[down][down] The words "hold it in" make it pretty obvious in my opinion.

Edited by FSharp on Aug 7th 2025 at 1:34:52 PM

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#14158: Aug 7th 2025 at 9:44:13 PM

[up][up]I'd say at least keep either the second or 4th paragraphs because they're the only ones that really make it obvious that they're doing the dance while waiting to go to the bathroom, which is the main point of the trope.

AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me)
#14159: Aug 8th 2025 at 5:18:27 AM

Quote for God of the Dead changed from

"Yo, hey, how ya doing everybody? Got a minute? Hades, Lord of the Dead. Nice to see ya. Hey, guess what? I've got a place for you DOWN UNDER!"

to

"Ba-boom. Name is Hades. Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin'?"
Hades, Hercules

Which do we prefer

Ey, migi vuru?
HalfFaust Since: Jan, 2019
#14160: Aug 8th 2025 at 5:48:37 AM

[up] Second one is shorter and still makes the same point, so I'd lean towards that.

Sovereign129 Since: May, 2025
#14161: Aug 8th 2025 at 1:12:20 PM

In Working Order doesn’t yet have a page quote, I was going to suggest this one:

“You go up there, insert the virus, how did you have the right lead? Cos I never have the right lead for my computer, and yet you’re in this alien spaceship, and I thought that was pretty bloody clever.”

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#14163: Aug 8th 2025 at 1:39:38 PM

[up] I think it fits better on the latter. Unfortunately, I don't like any of the other options on Quotes.Contrasting Sequel Main Character for various reasons, so maybe leave it blank for now.

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#14164: Aug 8th 2025 at 1:55:12 PM

[up][up]i'd say it fits I Am Not Him far better, yeah.

idk how fitting two quotes from two different games would fit, but here's 8 suggestions:


Ophilia: "The flame guides us true!"
Temenos: "May the Sacred Flame guide you... or, something like that."


Osvald: "I need a plan."


Tressa: "I'll get my money's worth."
Partitio: "Let's get to work!"


Olberic: "I challenge you to a test of strength and skill!"
Hikari: "Raise your weapon."


Primrose: "The show's over."
Agnea: "I wasn't expecting that!"


Alfyn: "Let's get down to work!"
Castti: "No mercy, only pain!"


Therion: "Like a thief in the night."
Throné: "...soon I will put this life behind me."


Ochette: "Ready to be prey?"

Edited by Eisner on Aug 8th 2025 at 1:55:23 AM

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ozchess cat bastard (she/her) from quadling country Since: Jun, 2024
cat bastard (she/her)
#14165: Aug 8th 2025 at 8:28:28 PM

[up] it could possibly have two quotes, like Inconsistent Coloring does. that being said i think those are a bit short to effectively show contrast

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...
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#14166: Aug 8th 2025 at 8:33:14 PM

[up]i personally think this:


Ophilia: "The flame guides us true!"
Temenos: "May the Sacred Flame guide you... or, something like that."


is the best one of the 8, as it directly contrasts Ophilia's belief and Temenos's doubt, but i can maybe find better ones

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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#14167: Aug 8th 2025 at 10:24:32 PM

I'm honestly not a fan of the formatting. I find two script-style quotes that aren't actually a dialogue in the same scene confusing at a glance. I'd be okay with using two quotes with full attribution, to show the contrast that way.

Edited by MurlocAggroB on Aug 8th 2025 at 11:24:52 AM

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#14168: Aug 8th 2025 at 10:44:40 PM

[up]something like this?

"The flame guides us true!"
Ophilia Clement, Octopath Traveler

"May the Sacred Flame guide you... or, something like that."
Temenos Mistral, Octopath Traveler II

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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
ozchess cat bastard (she/her) from quadling country Since: Jun, 2024
cat bastard (she/her)
#14170: Aug 9th 2025 at 12:40:37 PM

anyone else think All Therapists Are Muggles relies too much on the stage direction?

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...
isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#14171: Aug 9th 2025 at 7:15:52 PM

For Resurrection Tropes main page, what about from Time Bandits

Wally: But—but he's dead, Randall. Fidgit-Fidgit's dead.
Supreme Being: Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
Revives Fidgit

daudiffa SOIYA! from My Room Since: Nov, 2013
SOIYA!
#14172: Aug 10th 2025 at 3:16:22 AM

[up][up] I agree. How about this for the replacement from the example-list:

"Sometimes I wonder whether it would be easier if I just had Shizuru see a psychologist. The problem being, how does she say "I have a huge guilt complex over killing scores of people with my summoned demon named after the legendary Kiyohime" without being put in an asylum? Perhaps the First District has specialised psychologists. Oh, wait. She blew them up. That's what she's guilty about."
— Author's note of Windows of the Soul, chapter 10

It should be safe from linkrot since it's on Internet Archive.


[up] It needs better formatting (you can see other posts' markup for examples) and from what I can see right now, it relies too much on a stage direction.

"Your father was an average fighter, Kal-El, but he was a brilliant scientist!"
isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#14173: Aug 10th 2025 at 10:29:26 AM

I was going to make it proper once approved. But if you insist, then here it would be. Also, how is one line, two words long, "too much on a stage direction?" The trope page is about resurrections of various kind. The act of resurrection would be important to the quote.

Wally: But—but he's dead, Randall. Fidgit-Fidgit's dead.
Supreme Being: Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
Revives Fidgit

TheWhistleTropes janet likes her new icon. Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
janet likes her new icon.
#14174: Aug 10th 2025 at 10:39:13 AM

[up][up] We could just do this one from Altered Beast (1988) (though that would necessitate a duplicate quote).

WIIIIIISE FWOM YOUR GWAAAAVE!


I think the main quote on Furry Confusion might be a tad too wordy, so here's two quotes from its Quote Page that I think would be good to use in its place.

Does anyone else find it strange that we are all fish, but we're also 'riding' fish? I mean, where is the line drawn between which fish can talk and which fish don't?!
Jumbo, Fish Hooks

The second one:

Gordie: Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?
Teddy: Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.
Chris: He can't be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat.
Vern: Oh, God. That's weird. What the hell is Goofy?

I stand more by the second quote because it's so iconic but the first is a lot more succinct.

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isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#14175: Aug 10th 2025 at 10:53:58 AM

[up]Second quote is better.


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