Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.
FearJames Gordon in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 1Alfred: "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.
Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 15We can't change the past, but there's a difference between moving on and letting go.
Leslie Thompkins in Gotham, Season 3I promise you, however dark and scary the world might be right now, there will be light. There will be light, Bruce.
James Gordon in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 1It's good you're changing. Just don't change too much.
Catwoman in Gotham, Season 2 Episode 10Cop partnerships are like marriages. You know each other better than your wives.
PoliceHarvey Dent in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 18When crooks become more popular than cops, that's anarchy.
Harvey Bullock in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 17A good riddle reveals the asker. To solve it is to solve the mystery of the person posing it.
Edward Nygma / The Riddler in Gotham, Season 3 Episode 17Jim 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.
Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin in GothamGood 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.
Jerome Valeska in GothamA 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.
Edward Nygma / The Riddler in GothamThere is time for masks, and there is time for Bruce Wayne.
Alfred Pennyworth in GothamI don't want revenge. I want to understand how it all works.
Bruce Wayne in GothamTaking a punch is just as important as throwing one.
Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 9Friends don't owe friends, silly. They just do favors because they want to.
Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin in GothamI am given, and I am taken. I was there from your first breath, and I will follow you until your death.
[Name]
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.
Jerome Valeska in GothamWithout 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]
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!
Jerome Valeska in GothamA diamond plate, a glowing grate, a place you never leave. Where am I?
[Home]
What's the secret to good comedy? Timing. And what's courage? Grace under pressure. And who's the boss? I'm the boss.
Jerome Valeska in GothamI'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]
You make a life of crime sound very noble.
James Gordon in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 1It's what they represented. Different Gotham. Decent. Hopeful. Whatever it was, it's gone now.
James Gordon in GothamJim, you seem like a nice guy, but this is not a city or a job for nice guys.
Harvey Bullock in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 1Pick your battles. Don't let them pick you.
Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham, Season 2 Episode 22You don't bend, you'll get broke.
Sarah Essen in Gotham, Season 1 Episode 2Please don't think too badly of me. We are what we are.
Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin in GothamI'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.
Jerome Valeska in Gotham