The Dark Knight Rises: Five Stand-Out Quotes

The Dark Knight Rises

With director Christopher Nolan’s epic finale The Dark Knight Rises now firmly in the rear-view mirror, we’ve spent most of the week examining the minutia of the film, coming up with observations about what we liked, what we didn’t, what the next filmmakers can use and what Nolan did right. Today, we wanted to keep it pretty simple, pretty light–and look at some of the great lines in the movie.Some of them are just very quotable moments, but some are more than that. Nolan crafted a complex and pensive trilogy of films where threads from the first carry through to the third and thoughtful themes play out over the eight hours of screen time. Check out five standout lines, and let us know if we missed one.“It certainly looks better on you than in my safe.”This comment about the necklace that Selina Kyle had stolen from Bruce was something that really stuck out at me. It’s an odd, awkward phrase, meant to give Bruce an opportunity to force a flirtation into the conversation, I suppose, but at the end of the day it just comes off like Mitt Romney’s pickup line.

“No guns. No killing.” Kingdom Come “Good-bye, Alfred.”