The Best Leonard Quotes

Leonard: If we only allowed angels to be customers, soon we'd have no customers at all.

Leonard: Come with me.
Mable: No.
Leonard: No, come with me. You can show me things you've already seen.
Mable: You will not spend you best years taking care of my remaining few.
Leonard: I was taking care of myself just fine, you know. Oh, yes.
Mable: Knowing you, I'm quite confident you'd have seen to the burials of each each and everyone of those murders. But then .. you'd no longer be pretending to be one. Would you?

Leonard: Oh, yes.
- Knowing you, I'm quite confident you'd have seen to the burials of each and every one of those murderers.
- But then...
- You'd no longer be pretending to be one, would you?

[last lines]
Leonard: Its not perfect. You have to make your peace with that.
[leaving his shop]
Leonard: How? Well, you sit at your board, you lay out your tools, and you start again.

- I best go see if master Richie needs me.
- Ah.
- Speak of the devils.
- What's that now?
Leonard: Just an expression, sirs.
- Excuse me. I meant no offense.
- See you tomorrow.

Francis: Oh, are you a doctor now too?
Leonard: I was in the war.
Francis: At your age?
Leonard: The other war.

Leonard: I'm not a tailor; I'm a cutter.

Leonard: Step two is drawing.
- And for some, this can be the most purely enjoyable step.
- You're only just exploring.

[first lines]
Leonard: [narrating] To the naked eye, a suit appears to consist of two parts, a jacket and trousers. But those two seemingly solid parts are composed of four different fabrics. Cotton, silk, mohair, and wool. And those fabrics are cut into 38 separate pieces. The process of sizing, forming, conjoining those pieces, requires no fewer than 228 steps.
[puts his kettle on to boil]

- I'm guessing it's been quite an evening for you folks.
Leonard: Hazard of the trade, madame.
- Which one of you has my tape?
- Money first.
La: Please.

- and watched him die as he'd lived.
- Sorry he ever met me.
Leonard: Madame, you have nothing to fear from this man.
- Why is that?
- Because earlier this evening,
- I removed all the bullets from his gun.

Leonard: [narrating] It's at the finishings that you must come to terms with the idea that perfection is a necessary goal, precisely because it is unattainable. If you don't aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great. And yet true perfection is impossible.

Leonard: I want so bad to be good.

Leonard: You cannot make something good until you understand who you're making it for. All clothing says something.

- Where's the money?
- We're not showing you the tape until we see the money.
- Tape first.
La: How do I know what's on it?
- I've gotta listen.
Leonard: Well, it seems like you're just gonna have to trust us.
- We may be able to trust each other.

Leonard: Finishings, for me, can be the hardest part.
- Not because there is any great skill involved in these final steps...
- Putting on a few buttons, closr'ng up a few edges, but because if you've done your job, all the true craftsmansh/p has already occurred the finishings are mere ine v/tabilities.

- Take your measure...
- And when you understand who he is...
- Mr. Boyle.
Leonard: ...Then you're ready to begin.
- Knock, knock.
Leonard: Hmm.
- How's business, English?
Leonard: Evening, sirs.

- If you touch me again...
- I'll break your fucking arm, you understand?
- You're such a fucking prick, you know that?
- Think you're so fucking smart.
Leonard: Careful.
- Smarter than everyone. Hmm?
- Careful, master Richie. Careful.
- You fucking...

Leonard: When a mistake's been made, I've always found it best to simply be up-front about it.
Francis: English, I didn't cut the boss' pants too short, I shot his son in the face.

Richie: Why'd you come here then?
Leonard: The war.
Richie: What, Kruats bomb your place?
Leonard: Worse. They're called blue jeans.

Leonard: Pull him this way.
- Ow! Fuck!
- One more.
[Groans] Fuck!
- Fuck!
- Get my tweezers.