Babylon 5 quotes
561 total quotesVir: Can I get you anything?
Timov: Yes!! You can get me out of here! Who does Londo think he is, keeping us sitting about?
Daggair: He probably thinks he's our husband. And we, as dutiful wives, must await his return. Is that not right, Vir?
Vir: Well, actually--
Timov: You are joking, Daggair!
Daggair: Your problem, Timov, is that you've never known your place.
Timov: My place?! You once threatened to break a vase over his head!
Daggair: Well, haha, that was the impetuousness of youth.
Timov: That was last month! Daggair, what are you playing at?
Timov: Yes!! You can get me out of here! Who does Londo think he is, keeping us sitting about?
Daggair: He probably thinks he's our husband. And we, as dutiful wives, must await his return. Is that not right, Vir?
Vir: Well, actually--
Timov: You are joking, Daggair!
Daggair: Your problem, Timov, is that you've never known your place.
Timov: My place?! You once threatened to break a vase over his head!
Daggair: Well, haha, that was the impetuousness of youth.
Timov: That was last month! Daggair, what are you playing at?
Vir: Londo, this is insane!
Londo: Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you.
Londo: Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you.
Walker Smith: Any ideas on how I should fight this guy?
Michael Garibaldi: From inside a Main Battle Tank would be nice.
Michael Garibaldi: From inside a Main Battle Tank would be nice.
William Edgars: The truth will be revealed in a couple of days. How many people can say that?
Michael Garibaldi: I don't know. But I think the last guy got thirty pieces of silver for the same job.
Michael Garibaldi: I don't know. But I think the last guy got thirty pieces of silver for the same job.
Zathras: All Minbari belief is around three. Three castes�Worker, Warrior, Religious. Three languages�Light, Dark and Grey. The nine of the Grey Council, three times three. All is three. As you are three. As you are one. As you are the One. You [points to Sinclair] are the One who was. You [points at Delenn] are the One who is. And you�[points at Sheridan]�you are the One who will be. You are the beginning [Sinclair] of the story, and the middle [Delenn] of the story, and the end [Sheridan] of the story...that creates the next great story.
[1000 years later, in a future primitive Earth, Brother Alwyn advises the doubting Brother Michael.]
Brother Alwyn: Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning.
Brother Michael: Then why were we born able to reason, if reason's useless?
Brother Alwyn: Not useless. But it's also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
Brother Alwyn: Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning.
Brother Michael: Then why were we born able to reason, if reason's useless?
Brother Alwyn: Not useless. But it's also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
[500 years later, during a holographic simulation]
Delenn: What we are isn't a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will.
Delenn: What we are isn't a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will.
[A Centauri official comes to arrest G'Kar]
Londo: Where he goes, I go.
Londo [to G'Kar]: Don't worry. Even one as arrogant as this would not take it upon himself to imprison his own prime minister.
[Cut to the next scene, Londo and G'Kar are in a prison cell]
Londo: [to G'Kar]: Shut up.
G'Kar: I didn't say anything.
Londo: Where he goes, I go.
Londo [to G'Kar]: Don't worry. Even one as arrogant as this would not take it upon himself to imprison his own prime minister.
[Cut to the next scene, Londo and G'Kar are in a prison cell]
Londo: [to G'Kar]: Shut up.
G'Kar: I didn't say anything.
[A clandestine trio on Earth consider the premature leak of a Shadow ship sighting.]
Morden: Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident.
Psi Cop: I don't know. There's something about this idea of a threat to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves, there's no reason we can't use this situation to speed up the program here at home.
Morden: Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident.
Psi Cop: I don't know. There's something about this idea of a threat to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves, there's no reason we can't use this situation to speed up the program here at home.
[A distressed Talia presses Kosh for the meaning of his "business deal" with Abbut.]
Talia: What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?
Kosh: Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future.
Talia: What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?
Kosh: Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future.
[A funeral service for the pilots killed in the battle for Babylon 5]
John Sheridan: In breaking away from Earth, we have begun a difficult and uncertain journey, and none of us can see its end. But our cause remains a just one. That truth honors and sanctifies our fallen comrades who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might carry on the work that is ahead of us. We are gathered here today to honor their memory and their names.
Susan Ivanova: Hamilton. Rodriguez. Spinelli. Singh. Osterman. Massey. Cooper. Kim. Indari. Nagashima. Lietz. Mankowski. [as she reads the names, a line of torpedoes files out of the docking ring, watched over by a squadron of Starfuries]
Sheridan: From the stars we came. To the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.
John Sheridan: In breaking away from Earth, we have begun a difficult and uncertain journey, and none of us can see its end. But our cause remains a just one. That truth honors and sanctifies our fallen comrades who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might carry on the work that is ahead of us. We are gathered here today to honor their memory and their names.
Susan Ivanova: Hamilton. Rodriguez. Spinelli. Singh. Osterman. Massey. Cooper. Kim. Indari. Nagashima. Lietz. Mankowski. [as she reads the names, a line of torpedoes files out of the docking ring, watched over by a squadron of Starfuries]
Sheridan: From the stars we came. To the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.
[A furious Delenn attempts to convene the Grey Council.]
Acolyte: I told you, Delenn, they will not speak to you.
Delenn: Then they will listen to me! [She tries to go around him, but he blocks her path.] I served the Council for sixteen cycles. I was the chosen of Dukhat to replace him! I held him when he died! His blood is on my hands, his spirit in my eyes, his word on my lips! You will step aside in his name and mine, or�in Valen's name--I will tear this ship apart with my bare hands until I find them! Move aside!
[He wisely moves out of the way.]
. . .
[Delenn speaks to the Council.]
Delenn: Three years. For three years, I warned you this day was coming. But you would not listen. "Pride," you said! "Presumption!" And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have fallen... even the humans are fighting one another. The pride was yours! The presumption was yours! For a thousand years, we have been awaiting the fulfillment of prophecy. And when it finally happens, you scorn it--you reject it--because you no longer believe it yourselves!
[She confronts one of the Grey Council directly.]
Delenn: "We stand between the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light." You say the words, but your hearts are empty--your ears closed to the truth! You stand for nothing but your own petty interests!
[She confronts a second Grey Council member.]
Delenn: "The problems of others are not our concern." I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war! If the Warrior Caste will not fight, then the rest of us will!
[Now she confronts the leader, the one who carries the staff.]
Delenn: If the Council has lost its way, if it will not lead...if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen...! [Grabs the leader's staff and raises it over her head.] Then the Council should be broken...[She snaps the staff in two and throws both halves to the floor.]...as was prophesied! We must stand with the others--now, before it's too late! Between the Religious Caste and the Worker Caste, we control two thirds of our forces! And to you I say, listen to the voice of your conscience! Break the Council, and come with me! Our time of isolation is over! We move now, together, or not at all!
Acolyte: I told you, Delenn, they will not speak to you.
Delenn: Then they will listen to me! [She tries to go around him, but he blocks her path.] I served the Council for sixteen cycles. I was the chosen of Dukhat to replace him! I held him when he died! His blood is on my hands, his spirit in my eyes, his word on my lips! You will step aside in his name and mine, or�in Valen's name--I will tear this ship apart with my bare hands until I find them! Move aside!
[He wisely moves out of the way.]
. . .
[Delenn speaks to the Council.]
Delenn: Three years. For three years, I warned you this day was coming. But you would not listen. "Pride," you said! "Presumption!" And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have fallen... even the humans are fighting one another. The pride was yours! The presumption was yours! For a thousand years, we have been awaiting the fulfillment of prophecy. And when it finally happens, you scorn it--you reject it--because you no longer believe it yourselves!
[She confronts one of the Grey Council directly.]
Delenn: "We stand between the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light." You say the words, but your hearts are empty--your ears closed to the truth! You stand for nothing but your own petty interests!
[She confronts a second Grey Council member.]
Delenn: "The problems of others are not our concern." I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war! If the Warrior Caste will not fight, then the rest of us will!
[Now she confronts the leader, the one who carries the staff.]
Delenn: If the Council has lost its way, if it will not lead...if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen...! [Grabs the leader's staff and raises it over her head.] Then the Council should be broken...[She snaps the staff in two and throws both halves to the floor.]...as was prophesied! We must stand with the others--now, before it's too late! Between the Religious Caste and the Worker Caste, we control two thirds of our forces! And to you I say, listen to the voice of your conscience! Break the Council, and come with me! Our time of isolation is over! We move now, together, or not at all!
[A gloating "Deathwalker" Jha'dur reveals the secret of her immortality drug.]
Jha'dur: You and the rest of your kind take blind comfort in the belief that we are monsters, that you could never do what we did. The key ingredient in the anti-agapic cannot be synthesized. It must be taken from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work. And the billions who are murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance of my work. Not like us? You will become us.
Jha'dur: You and the rest of your kind take blind comfort in the belief that we are monsters, that you could never do what we did. The key ingredient in the anti-agapic cannot be synthesized. It must be taken from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work. And the billions who are murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance of my work. Not like us? You will become us.
[A hungover and limping Ivanova stumbles out of a transport tube after a Drazi religious celebration, much to Sheridan's surprise.]
John Sheridan: What the...?
Susan Ivanova: Don't. Even. Ask.
John Sheridan: What the...?
Susan Ivanova: Don't. Even. Ask.