The best Quotes by Edward Nygma / The Riddler

A good riddle reveals the asker. To solve it is to solve the mystery of the person posing it.

The less you have, the more they're worth. To friends!

A man with nothing that he loves is a man who cannot be bargained. A man that cannot be betrayed. A man who answers to no one but himself.

I am given, and I am taken. I was there from your first breath, and I will follow you until your death.
[Name]

Without fingers I point, without arms I strike, without feet I run. What am I?
[Clock]

I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance. I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. What am I?
[Love]

I can start a war or end one. I can give you the strength of heroes or leave you powerless. I might be snared with a glance but no force can compel me to stay. What am I?
[Love]

I'm strong as a rock, but a word can destroy me. What am I?
[Silence]

A diamond plate, a glowing grate, a place you never leave. Where am I?
[Home]

I'm the revealer of masks. When I appear, friend becomes foe. And the one that you love becomes the one that you hate. What am I?
[Betrayal]

Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.

Alfred: "Gotham is not your responsibility."
Bruce: "I'm making it mine."

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We can't change the past, but there's a difference between moving on and letting go.

I promise you, however dark and scary the world might be right now, there will be light. There will be light, Bruce.

It's good you're changing. Just don't change too much.

Cop partnerships are like marriages. You know each other better than your wives.

When crooks become more popular than cops, that's anarchy.

Jim Gordon: "Personal business."
Harvey Bullock: "You disappear in the middle of a case, you can't even tell me why?"
Jim Gordon: "That's what 'personal' means."

When you know what a man loves, you know what can kill him.

Good ol' Gordon. Always playing by the rules. That's why I'll outlive you. That's why I'm loved, 'cause I don't give a damn about the rules.

There is time for masks, and there is time for Bruce Wayne.

I don't want revenge. I want to understand how it all works.

Taking a punch is just as important as throwing one.

Friends don't owe friends, silly. They just do favors because they want to.

In the darkness, there are no rules. So, tonight Gotham, do what you want. Kill who you want. And when morning comes, you too shall be reborn.

You're all prisoners. What you call sanity, it's just a prison in your minds that stops you from seeing that you're just tiny little cogs in a giant absurd machine. Wake up! Why be a cog? Be free like us. Just remember, smile!

What's the secret to good comedy? Timing. And what's courage? Grace under pressure. And who's the boss? I'm the boss.

You make a life of crime sound very noble.

It's what they represented. Different Gotham. Decent. Hopeful. Whatever it was, it's gone now.

Jim, you seem like a nice guy, but this is not a city or a job for nice guys.

Pick your battles. Don't let them pick you.

You don't bend, you'll get broke.

Here's to the nights that turned into mornings,
and the friends that turned into family!

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from enemies, it comes from those you trust the most.

I'm more than a man. I'm an idea, a philosophy. And I will live on in the shadows within Gotham's discontent. You'll be seeing me soon. Au revoir.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it.
Because he's not our hero, he's a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight.

Please don't think too badly of me. We are what we are.

Dent: "Rachel talks about you all the time. You've known her her whole life?"
Alfred: "No, not yet, sir."
Dent: "Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should be aware of?"
Alfred: "You have no idea."

I'm a woman, I'm used to do things I don't want to do.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"