Top 50 Quotes From Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Perry: Kent? Where the hell is Kent? Where did he go? Where does he go?

[from trailer]
Batman: It's time you learned what it means to be a man.
Superman: Stay down! If I wanted it, you'd be dead already!

Batman: Whatever you do, wherever you go, I will be watching you.
Lex: But the bell's already been rung.

Bruce: We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.
Alfred: Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.

Bruce: I can't stay down here, Alfred.
Alfred: Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.
[to self]
Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...

Alfred: You're gonna go to war?
Bruce: That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead... thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.
Alfred: But he is not our enemy!
Bruce: Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?

Alfred: Master Wayne, since the age of seven you've been into the art of deception like Mozart to the harpsichord, but you've never been too hot at lying to me.

Bruce: All the circuses back east, burying an empty box.
Diana: They don't know how to honor him, except as a soldier.
Bruce: I've failed him... in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.
Diana: Perhaps they don't want to be found.
Bruce: They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.
Diana: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.
Bruce: Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.
[scene: IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND YOU]
Diana: The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?
Bruce: Just a feeling.

Clark: Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.
Bruce: Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.
Clark: I'm sorry?
Bruce: [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?

Clark: Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.
Bruce: Don't believe everything you hear, son.
Clark: I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.
Bruce: The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Clark: Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce: Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.

Lex: And now God bends to my will.

Neil: We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe. And you go back to Copernicus where he restored the sun in the center of the known universe, displacing Earth. And you get to Darwinian evolution and you find out we're not special on this earth. We're just one among other lifeforms. And now we learn that we're not even special in the entire universe because there is Superman. There he is, an alien among us. We're not alone.

Lex: You don't need to use a silver bullet. But if you forge one, you don't need to depend on the kindness of monsters.

[first lines]
Batman: There was a time above... a time before... there were perfect things... diamond absolutes. But things fall... things on earth. And what falls... is fallen. In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.

Lex: Boys! Mm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we?
[shakes Bruce's hand]
Bruce: Lex.
Lex: Hello. Good.
[turns to Clark]
Lex: Hi, hello.
[shakes Clark's hand]
Lex: Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow, that is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person.

Lex: See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Jo, 'cause God is tribal. God takes sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from Daddy's fist and abominations. I figured out way back if God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful. And neither can you be.

Diana: [to Bruce Wayne] You know, it's true what they say about little boys: born with no natural inclination to share.

Batman: You're not brave. Men are brave.

Bruce: Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
Alfred: It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.

Clark: It's like a one-man reign of terror. This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements. And, far as I can tell, the cops are actually helping him.
Perry: "Crime Wave in Gotham." Other breaking news: "Water, Wet." Did you file the football yet?
Clark: Why aren't we covering this? Poor people don't buy papers?
Perry: People don't buy papers, period, Kent.
Clark: Perry, when you assign a story, you're making a choice about who matters. And who's worth it.
Perry: Good morning, Smallville. The American conscience died with Robert, Martin, and John.

Superman: All this time I've been living my life the way my father saw it. Righting wrongs for a ghost, thinking I'm here to do good. Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas.
Lois: That farmer's dream is all some people have. It's all that gives them hope.
[touches the S shield]
Lois: This means something.
Superman: It did on my world. My world doesn't exist anymore.

Senator: The world has been so caught up with what Superman can do that no one has asked what he should do.

Lex: The Red Capes are coming! The Red Capes are coming!

Lex: And now you will fly to him, and you will battle him to the death. Black and blue. Fight night. The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world: God versus man; day versus night; Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!

Lex: An ancient Kryptonian deformity; blood of my blood, born to destroy you!... Your Doomsday.

Diana: The others like me... Why did you say they'll have to fight?
Bruce: Just a feeling.

Batman: You're not brave... men are brave. You say that you want to help people, but you can't feel their pain... their mortality... It's time you learn what it means to be a man.

Bruce: You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.
Diana: Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.

Batman: I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.

Anatoli: Drop it. I said drop it! I'll kill her! Believe me, I'll do it!
Batman: I believe you.

Superman: You think I'll fight him for you?
Lex: Mm, yes, I do. I think you will fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life!
Superman: She's safe on the ground. How about you?
Lex: Close, but I am not talking about Lois. No. Every boy's special lady is his mother... Martha, Martha, Martha... Now, the mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.

Alfred: [looking at an empty wine bottle] I hope the next generation of Waynes won't inherit an empty wine cellar. Not that there's likely to be a next generation...

Superman: Luthor. He wanted your life for her's. She's losing time.
Lois: The scout ship seems to be drawing power from the city. It's gotta be Lex.
Batman: They need you at that ship. I'll find her.
Superman: My mother needs me.
Batman: [stops him] Wait. I'll make you a promise: Martha won't die tonight.

Jon: So apparently Superman doesn't want us to think of him as American anymore. And really, why would we? Aside from the red and blue costume. And, I don't know, the fact that he has one-third of the USA's initials on his chest. I assume the only reason he's not wearing the Declaration of Independence as a cape is... He thinks it's too on-the-nose.

Superman: Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy.
[Superman begins to walk away]
Batman: Tell me. Do you bleed?
[Superman flies away as Batman watches on]
Batman: You will.

Martha: Be their hero, Clark. Be their angel, be their monument, be anything they need you to be... or be none of it. You don't owe this world a thing. You never did.

Lex: [to General Zod] You flew too close to the sun. Now look at you.

Lex: If man won't kill God, the Devil will do it!

Alfred: You know you can't win this. It's suicide.
Bruce: I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.
Alfred: Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?
Bruce: Criminals are like weeds, Alfred; pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy.

Perry: So. I logged into your Dropbox to find a copy. There's copy all right. But nothing about football. Nothing about, uh, the friends of Metropolis Library, just the goddamn Bat thing I told you not to pursue.
Clark: If the police won't help, the press has to do the right thing.
Perry: You don't get to decide what the right thing is.
Clark: When the Planet was founded, it stood for something, Perry.
Perry: And so could you if it was 1938, but it's not 1938. WPA ain't hiring no more. Apples don't cost a nickel. Not in here, not out there. You drop this thing! Nobody cares about Clark Kent talking on the Batman.

Bruce: Excuse me, miss. The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing's not polite.
Diana: Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?

Lois: You're psychotic.
Lex: That is a three syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.

[Doomsday jumps in front of the Batwing]
Batman: Oh, shit.

Lex: Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It's that power can be innocent.

Lex: [looks at a picture of angels vs demons] That should be upside down. We know better now, don't we? Devils don't come from hell beneath us. No, they come from the sky.

Batman: It's okay, I'm a friend of your son's.
Martha: [grins] I figured. The cape.

The: Bruce! Listen to me now! It's Lois! Lois Lane! She's the key! Am I too soon? I'm too soon! You were right about him! You've always been right about him! Fear him! Find us, Bruce! You have to find us!

Wonder: This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy.
Superman: This thing is from another world. My world.
Wonder: I've killed things from other worlds before.
Superman: [to Batman] Is she with you?
Batman: I thought she was with you.

Jonathan: It's somethin', innit? One minute in Kansas livin' on a pancake so we come to the mountains. All downhill from here; down to the floodplain, arm at the bottom of the world. I remember one season the water came bad. I couldn't've been twelve. Dad had out the shovels and we went at it all night. We worked 'til I think I fainted, but we managed to stop the water. We saved the farm. Your grandma baked me a cake, said I was a hero. Later that day we found out we blocked the water alright - we sent it upstream. A whole Lange farm washed away. While I ate my hero cake, their horses were drowning. I used to hear them wailing in my sleep.
Clark: Did the nightmares ever stop?
Jonathan: Yeah. When I met your mother. She gave me faith that there's good in this world. She was my world. I miss you, Son.
Clark: I miss you too, Dad.

Diana: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind; from a century of horrors... Men made a world where standing together is impossible.
Bruce: Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.