Aldo Raine Quotes

You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-taking business. We in the killing Nazi business, and, cousin, business is a-booming.

Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will get me 100 Nazi scalps taken from the heads of 100 dead Nazis. Or you will die trying!

You’ll be shot for this![Hans Landa]Nah, I don’t think so. More like chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before.[Aldo Raine]

You know, Lieutenant, you’re getting pretty good at that.[Donny Donowitz]You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, don’t you? Practice.[Aldo Raine][after Aldo carved a swastika into Private Butz’s forehead]

You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.[after carving a swastika into Landa’s forehead]

You didn’t say the goddamn rendezvous is in a f***ing basement.[Aldo Raine]I didn’t know.[Archie Hicox]You said it was in a tavern.[Aldo Raine]It is a tavern.[Archie Hicox]Yeah, in a basement. You know, fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you’re fighting in a basement.[Aldo Raine]

Who does what?[Bridget von Hammersmark]Well, I speak the most Italian, so I’ll be your escort. Donowitz speaks second most, so he’ll be your Italian cameraman. Omar, third most. He’ll be Donny’s assistant.[Aldo Raine]I don’t speak Italian.[Omar Ulmer]Like I said, third best. Just keep your f***ing mouth shut. In fact, why don’t you start practicing right now?[Aldo Raine]

We’re going to be dropped into France dressed as civilians. Once we’re in enemy territory, as a bushwhacking guerrilla army, we’re going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis.

We will be cruel to the Germans. And through our cruelty, they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won’t be able to help themselves, but imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us. And the German will talk about us. And the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they’re tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us that they are tortured with.

That’s German, ain’t it? You all like climbing mountains, don’t you?[Aldo Raine]I don’t. I like smoking, drinking and ordering in restaurants.[Bridget von Hammersmark]

That’s a bingo! Is that the way you say it? “That’s a bingo.”[Hans Landa]You just say, “Bingo.”[Aldo Raine]Bingo! How fun. But I digress. Where were we?[Hans Landa]

Tell me, Aldo, if I were sitting where you’re sitting, would you show me mercy?[Hans Landa]Nope.[Aldo Raine]What is that English expression about shoes and feet?[Hans Landa]“Looks like the shoe is on the other foot.” Yeah, I was just thinking that.[Aldo Raine]