Favorite line of dialogue?

Yep, just watched that episode last night -  it's getting really good !

From an episode I just watched:

I have become my own greatest work of art. Mwahahaha! -Charles Delaware Tate

I don't know why but that ALWAYS cracks me up.

I have become my own greatest work of art. Mwahahaha! -Charles Delaware Tate

I don't know why but that ALWAYS cracks me up.

Probably because the way RD delivers it is so maniacal. 

I think I've seen this mentioned somewhere on here a long time ago, but I recently viewed the pre-1897 episode where, after both Janet Findley and Ezra Braithwaite have both [spoiler]succumbed to heart failure,[/spoiler] Barnabas says to Julia, "Curious so many hearts should stop in this house." Classic!

Liz: "Because I choose to do so!"

Barnabas to Burke Devlin:

"Serenity is my favorite emotion."

Liz: "Because I choose to do so!"

I've been wondering how long it was going to take for you to post that. 

 

Well, you know me, it takes me 14 days to write and submit a sentence, lol.

This isn't my favorite line, but I thought of it recently because it's such a delicious verbal put-down of Angelique.  In 1897, Laura tells Ang:  "You may be succeeding as a ... whatever you are ... but it doesn't hide the fact that you're a failure... AS A WOMAN."  This is followed by the two women swearing to destroy one another.

Just delicious stuff.

G.

  What a great thread on one of my favorite subjects. I love the one line zingers more than the longer drawn out conversations, unless there are a lot of zingers in that conversation. Here is one between Trask and Nicholas (Jerry Lacy and Humbert Allen Astredo were fantastic in their scenes together. This one occurred when [spoiler]The wall where Trask had been sealed in 1795 by Barnabas fell down and his skeleton was revealed. Nicholas brought him back to life[/spoiler]

"Why have you disturbed my rest?"
"You have disrupted my plan, Reverend, and one bad turn deserves another."
"Who are you?"
"The one who has commanded you. The one you will obey. Surely you must know by now, Reverend, that there is no rest for the wicked."
"I am a man of God!"
"A man of God indeed. In your time you were the greatest of all possible fools, Mr. Trask!"
"Reverend Trask!"
"You were a blind, overzealous fanatic, a bigot and a fraud, intolerant, cruel and unjust. A man after my own heart!"

Priceless!

Here's one with Evan Hanley and Gregory Trask in 1897

"I have the power of the Almighty fighting on my side!"
"I didn't know that the Almighty faught on the side of the cruel and the greedy."
"Taking over Collinwood was the kindest thing I could do. Can I leave the lunatics to run the asylum? The animals to run the zoo?"

I hated him for this!!!

At the beginning of the 1897 storyline when [spoiler]Judith learned that she had gotten everything in grandmama's will[/spoiler] she called her brothers down and said, "I'm going to read you your obituaries!"

Later in that storyline Quentin said to Trask, "You make my life miserable just by existing!" That's one of my favorite quotes.

When [spoiler]Evan and Quentin called up the devil, who showed up but Trask![/spoiler] and he said, "You called for the devil and you got me!" I thought it was fitting. I thought he'd say, "The devil couldn't make it so he sent me, his head henchman!"

Quentin when [spoiler]Magda told him he was gonna die and it would be a woman with the initial J who would kill him[/spoiler] said, "Of course a woman's gonna kill me! I wouldn't have it any other way!"

I could have more but I prefer to get the quotes at least close to exact. So I'll be back.

Alondra

When [spoiler]Evan and Quentin called up the devil, who showed up but Trask![/spoiler] and he said, "You called for the devil and you got me!" I thought it was fitting. I thought he'd say, "The devil couldn't make it so he sent me, his head henchman!"

I LOVE this one!  Priceless since they were calling for the devil and Trask walked in. [and the difference is??] Very fitting.

Julia:   "Where is Mr.[Grant] Douglas?"

Olivia:  "Well, he's in his room as far as I know, but...this is not the right time to see him."

Julia:   "Why not?"

Olivia:  "Well, he was disturbed by something today and he took to drinking quite heavily, and as far as I know he's sleeping it off."

Julia:    *grinning devilishly and heading for the door - "This is definitely the right time to see him."


- episode 916

Dennis Patrick's Character to Liz (Jason I believe):  I'll be leaving tomorrow......

Liz:  Anything I can do to speed the day?????

such a great retort from her!

Count Petofi has a lot of awesome lines, in my opinion. My favorite that I can remember, said to Aristede as Garth Blackwood approaches Tate's studio,

"You are wasting the few precious moments you have left"

also the subsequent lines in that scene are pretty sweet. I think that one was more about the delivery, as it doesn't seem that great written out, lol.. Also Quentin has a lot of good lines in 1897. My favorite, said to Barnabas right after they meet for the first time:

"I suggest you start talking. Five minutes go by rather quickly when a man is about to die."

Having only seen the series once, I only really remember the goofs or ones that just sounded wrong. The incestors line, of course, but also:

"I don't like it when men try to handle me." ~ Adam

"When your husband... disturbed me... he was looking for the family jewels..." ~ Barnabas to Magda, 1897

And I found this little exchange interesting:

Carolyn: I've only ever heard [David] say he loved something once before.
Vicki: What was that?
Carolyn: When I went to visit him in Bangor once, he had a little kitten. He told me he loved it.
Vicki: What happened to the kitten?
*beat*
Carolyn: He drowned it.

I probably didn't get that exactly right.