75 Essential Batman Quotes From Comics, TV and Film

Because we all wear masks.

From his creation by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane in 1939, DC Comics' Caped Crusader has become one of the most recognizable and enduringly popular superheroes in the history of pop culture. To celebrate the Dark Knight's legacy, we've rounded up the most unforgettable Batman quotes. These are the punchiest, wittiest and most provocative quotes from Batman movies, comics and TV series.

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75 best Batman quotes

1. "I'm Batman." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Begins 

2. "The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight 

3. "I believe what doesn't kill you simply makes you, stranger." - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

4. "Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice." - Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight 

5. “Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you… As it almost did me.” - Henri Ducard, Batman Begins

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6. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight 

7. "If you're good at something, never do it for free." - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

8. "Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?" - The Joker, Batman 

9. "Swear to me!" - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Begins 

10. "If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely… Legend, Mr. Wayne." - Henri Ducard, Batman Begins

11. "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. " - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Begins 

12. "The world only makes sense if you force it to." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, The Dark Knight Returns 

13. "Some men just want to watch the world burn." - Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight 

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14."Yes, father. I shall become a bat." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman: Year One 

15. "Good grammar is essential, Robin." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

16. "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now." - Commissioner Gordon, The Dark Knight 

17. "Criminals, by nature, are a cowardly and superstitious lot." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman: Hush 

18. "Let the games begin!" - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises 

19. "Holy rusted metal, Batman!" - Dick Grayson/ Robin, Batman Forever 

20. "I am vengeance. I am the night. I am Batman." -Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 

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21. "Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, The Dark Knight 

22. "You're harder to kill than a cockroach on steroids!" - The Joker, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

23. "You're not taking me to the cooler!" - Mr. Freeze, Batman & Robin 

24. "That's one trouble with dual identities, Robin. Dual responsibilities." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

25. "I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman 

26. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.” - The Joker, The Killing Joke 

27. "Rubber lips are immune to your charms." - Dick Grayson/Robin,  Batman & Robin 

28. "How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?" - Alan Moore, The Killing Joke 

29. "As a man; I am flesh and blood; I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting." - Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins 

30. "Life's a bitch. So am I." - Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Batman Returns 

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31. “The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act.” - Henri Ducard, Batman Begins 

32. "Not you, Robin. They have strict licensing laws in this country. A boy of your age is not allowed in a drinking tavern." Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

33. "Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push." - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

34. "What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!" - Mr. Freeze, Batman & Robin 

35. "We all wear masks." -Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Forever 

36. "I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman." - The Joker, Batman 

37. "You can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around!" - The Joker, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 

38. "The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

39. “If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.” - The Joker, The Killing Joke 

40. "She wants to kill you, Dick." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman & Robin 

41. "Do you wanna know how I got these scars?" - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

42. "You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts!" - Bruce Wayne/ Batman, Batman 

43. "Batman punches people in the face." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman comics

44. "About the whole no guns thing...I'm not sure I feel as strongly about it as you do." - Selina Kyle/Catwoman, The Dark Knight Rises 

45. "Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning, but failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zero Year 

46. "No miracles. No mercy. No redemption. No heaven. No hell. No Higher Power. Just life, just...us." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman: Absolution 

47. "You've gotta admit, I've played this stinking city, like a harp from hell!" - The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot, Batman Returns 

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48. "I don't blend in at a family picnic." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Forever 

49 "I'm a lover not a fighter!" - Poison Ivy, Batman & Robin 

50. "I am Catwoman. Hear me roar." - Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Batman Returns 

51. "You think darkness is your ally." - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises 

52. "Joygasm!" - The Riddler, Batman Forever 

53. "It is the duty of every good citizen of Gotham City to report meeting a man from Mars in a public park." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

54. "Let's kick some ICE!" - Mr. Freeze, Batman & Robin 

55. "The pen is truly mightier than the sword!" - The Joker, Batman

56. "You're a real nice girl, and I like you a lot, but right now—shut up!" - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman 

57. "I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?" - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Forever 

58. "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, The Dark Knight Rises 

59. "Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big black bat?" - The Riddler, Batman Forever 

60. “Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." - The Joker, The Killing Joke 

61. "Grr, monkey work!" - Bane, Batman & Robin 

62. "Come on, I want you to do it, I want you to do it. Come on, hit me. Hit me!" - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

63. [whipping out Batman credit card] "Never leave the cave without it!" - Batman, Batman & Robin 

64. "The bat-signal is not a beeper." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Forever 

65. "Let that be a lesson. In the future, be more careful from who you accept free lemonade."- Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

66. "For once I'm stuck without a punchline." - The Joker, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 

67. "I'm still here." - Bane, Batman comics

68. "A reporter's lot is not easy, making exciting stories out of plain, average, ordinary people like Robin and me." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

69. "It's obvious. Only a criminal would disguise himself as a licensed, bonded guard yet callously park in front of a fire hydrant." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman (TV series)

70. "I'm the goddamn Batman" - Bruce Wayne/Batman, All-Star Batman and Robin 

71. "All you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to them!" - The Joker, The Dark Knight 

72. "Meow." - Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Batman Returns 

73. "You're about to become compost." - Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Batman & Robin

74. "All men have limits. They learn what they are and learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine." - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Knightfall 

75. "I never said thank you."... "And you'll never have to." - Commissioner Gordon and Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Begins 

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