Jim Gordon: I never cared who you were... Batman: And you were right. Jim Gordon: ...but shouldn't the people know the hero whot saved them? Batman: A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a ...
Jim Gordon: [reading from the book "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens] I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hol...
Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak. Bruce Wayne: Why? Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear o...
Catwoman: My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men. Batman: This isn't a car.
Bane: [to Batman] Peace has cost you your strength! Victory has defeated you!
[Bane wrecks the CIA plane and grabs Dr Pavel] Bane: Calm down, Doctor! Now's not the time for fear. That comes later.
Bane: Speak of the devil and he shall appear.
John Daggett: What. The hell. Is going on? Bane: Our plan is proceeding as expected. John Daggett: Oh really? Do *I* look like I'm running Wayne Enterprises right now? Your hit, on the stock exchange, it didn't work, my friend! And now you have my co...
Selina Kyle: There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us. Bruce Wayne: You s...
Catwoman: I blow that tunnel open, I'm gone. Batman: There's more to you than that. Catwoman: Sorry I keep letting you down. [pause] Catwoman: Come with me. Save yourself. You don't owe these people any more. You've given them everything. Batman: Not...
[In the pit] Crowd: [chanting] Deshi basara! Deshi basara! Bruce Wayne: What does that mean? Prisoner: Rise.
Bane: We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you... the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Blac...
Bruce Wayne: I watched you die. Ra's al Ghul: I told you I was immortal.
Bruce Wayne: Must've lost my ticket. Valet Attendant: Your wife said you were taking a cab home. Bruce Wayne: My wife?
John Blake: I just can't take it. I mean, nobody will ever know who it was who saved an entire city. Jim Gordon: They know who it was; it was the Batman.
Lucius Fox: This conversation used to end with an unusual request. Bruce Wayne: I'm retired. Lucius Fox: Well let me show you some stuff anyway. Just for old time's sake.
[Bruce, wearing a ski mask, visits Gordon's hospital room] Jim Gordon: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. Bruce Wayne: The Batman wasn't needed anymore. We won. Jim Gordon: Based on a lie. Now this evil... ris...
Doctor: I've seen worse cartilage in knees. Bruce Wayne: That's good. Doctor: No, that's because there is NO cartilage in your knee, and not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders. Between that and the scar tissue on your kidneys, the resid...
