Sin City Quotes

Will that give you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless old fart?[Cardinal Roark]The killing, no. No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing will be a gas.[Marv]

When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I’m as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench.

When I need to find something out, I just go out and look for somebody that knows more than me, and I go and I ask them. Sometimes, I ask pretty hard.

Whatever he does to you, don’t scream.[to Nancy]

There’s what, maybe 500 people in this hospital? I could pump you full of bullets right now, and I wouldn’t even be arrested. Everyone would lie for me, everyone who counts. Otherwise, their own lies, everything that runs Sin City, it all comes tumbling down like a pack of cards.[to John]

There’s no use arguing with her. The ladies are their own enforcers.[about Gail]

The fire, baby. It’ll burn us both. There’s no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My Valkyrie. You’ll always be mine. Always, and never.

Sometimes, you can beat the odds with the careful choice of where to fight.

Sometimes, the truth doesn’t matter like it ought. But you’ll always remember things right.[to Nancy]

Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you’ve got them by the balls.

It’s time to prove to your friends that you’re worth a damn. Sometimes, that means dying. Sometimes, it means killing a whole lot of people.

I’ve done some dumb things.[Shellie]Seeing as how I’m one of those dumb things, I can’t give you too hard a time about that, Shellie.[Dwight McCarthy]