Babylon 5 quotes

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[After Dukhat compels Delenn to speak before the Grey council]
Dukhat: You look as if you've been terrified into another and better incarnation.
...
[During the Dreaming, Delenn recalls a conversation with her mentor Dukhat.]
Dukhat: Authority should never be used as a club, Delenn.
...
Dukhat: When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be.

[After fighting the thieves with Arthur]
G'Kar: By G'Quan, I can't recall the last time I was in a fight like that! No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces! They were the bad guys, as you say, and we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor.

[After Garibaldi reunites a client with his missing daughter, the man is surprised by the invoice Garibaldi hands him.]
Client: It's one-third your fee!
Michael Garibaldi: It is? [looking] Yeah, it is. Well, I am going to have to take this up with Bookkeeping. I mean, this hardly even covers my expenses. I--well, now that I think about it, I am the Bookkeeping Department. I'll tell you what. I don't wanna get me into trouble over this, so...why don't we just let it go at 30%?

[after he and Lyndisty kiss for the first time]
Vir Cotto: If kisses could kill, that one would have flattened several small towns!

[after realizing Garibaldi has accessed her personnel file, Lochley storms out of her office]
Zack Allan: Where you going?
Lochley: To pound someone, Mr. Allan. You win. I just decided if you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

[after Sinclair narrowly escapes death]
Delenn: You're all right? Do you need anything?
Sinclair: Coffee. Two sugars. Cream. And aspirin. Lots and lots of aspirin!

[after the isolation zone is reopened and all the Markab are found dead]
Delenn: John...John...
[he holds her close as she sobs and wails for the dead]

[after the Liandra rescues a group of very annoyed diplomats from an alien raid, G'Kar attempts to calm them down]
G'Kar: Minister Kafta, this ship is being held together by little pieces of wire and good intentions. If we land in this condition, assuming we do not have an unpleasant encounter with the ground on the way down, I doubt very much they could take off again. They would be trapped with us, and the ship looking for them would find it, find them, find us, find you, a brilliant cascade of cause and effect. Isn't the universe a wonderful place? I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[after their last encounter with Delenn]
Mack: Bo?
Bo: Yeah?
Mack: She remembered my name.
Bo: Our names.
Mack: I think I'm in love.
Bo: She's married.
Mack: Eh. We can work something out.

[after tricking Bester into thinking he's killed the rogue telepaths, Talia speaks with the rogues' leader]
Leader: You know you can't go back again.
Talia Winters: I can't leave the Corps. They'll come after me.
Leader: No, I mean in here! [points to his head] You know too much. If Bester scans you, he'll...Can you keep him out?
Talia: I think so. Jason's little gift.
Leader: He gave you more than you know. What we did back there, it shouldn't have worked. Not with that Psi Cop. You tipped the balance. I felt it when we were joined. You're more than you think you are.
Talia: Then what am I?
Leader: The future.

[Ambassador Correlilmerzon insists on sex to cement the Earth-Lumati alliance. Ivanova does a bizarre song and dance which she claims is human-style sex.]
Susan Ivanova:

[Ambassador Kosh hires commercial telepath Talia for an mysterious job.]
Kosh: We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.
[Later, after the first meeting]
Kosh: We shall commence again tomorrow at the hour of longing.

[Ambassador Kosh meets with Ivanova in Docking Bay 13.]
Susan Ivanova: Ambassador. You wanted to see me?
Kosh: Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed.
Ivanova: Informed of what?
Kosh: Returning.
[a surprise passenger emerges from Kosh's transport]
Lyta Alexander: Hello, Commander. I said I'd be back.

[An ISN crew arrives on the station and is stopped by security.]
Dan Randall: Hey! That's private proprerty! We have rights here!
Zack Allan: What you're going to have is my foot sixteen inches up your butt if you don't get the hell out of my way!

[An ISN reporter complains to Sheridan about Ivanova's rough treatment.]
John Sheridan: Commander! Did you threaten to grab this man by the collar and threaten to throw him out an airlock?
Susan Ivanova: [chagrined] Yes, I did.
Sheridan: I'm shocked! Shocked and dismayed.
[The reporter nods, mollified.]
Sheridan: May I remind you that we are short on supplies here? We can't afford to take perfectly good clothing and throw it out into space! Always take the jacket off first--I've told you that before!
[Ivanova nods meekly.]
Sheridan: Sorry. She meant to say, "stripped naked and thrown out of an airlock". I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.