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Homer Simpson: So... How's everyone doing?
Blue Haired Lawyer: You don't have to answer that.
Lisa Simpson: Shut up! All of you! Or I'll sue!
Marge Simpson: Oh, save it for your next book, you little snitch!
Gloria Allred: That's assault! That is assault!

Lou: Here you go, ma'am.
[escorts Milhouse back into the classroom]
Krabappel: Mmm. Quick work. How'd you know he was gonna run?
Lou: We got someone on the inside.
[everyone glares at Martin who laughs sheepishly]

Connor: We haven't really got a system of deciding who, Roc. It's, uh...
Rocco: Me! Me! I'm the guy! I know everyone! Their habits, who they hang out with, who they talk to! I've got phone numbers, addresses! I know who they're fucking! I know where they live! We could kill everyone!

"In prison, he shared a cell with Carmine Falcone, he learned things and he will testify in exchange for early parole."
Rachel Dawes on Joe Chill, Batman Begins

Brick Top: Pull your tongue out of my arsehole, Gary. Dogs do that. You're not a dog, are ya, Gary?
Gary: No, no, I'm not.
Brick Top: However, you do have all the characteristics of a dog, Gary... All except loyalty.
(Errol, another henchman, zaps Gary in the side with a stun gun, while Liam pulls a plastic bag over his head; Brick Top, meanwhile, eyes Liam and strolls casually past him.)
Brick Top: You're a ruthless little cunt, Liam, I'll give you that... but I've got no time for grassers.
(Behind him, Errol pulls a plastic bag over Liam's head and drags him to the ground in a suffocated heap.)

One of these days I'm going to do a psychological study of a stool-pigeon. They're an interesting lot: almost without exception more cowardly even than the ordinary crook, yet they follow the most dangerous calling in the criminal world; for not only is their own world against them, but the detectives who use them seldom hesitate to sacrifice them if anything is gained thereby.
Dashiell Hammett, Black Mask, June 1924 issue

"I'm telling Mrs. Jenkins that Nora talked birthday talk in school and hurt all our feelings!"
Grace to Doris and the Franks, The Secret Birthday

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