Alfred Pennyworth – Character Quotes

— Will you be wanting the Batpod?
— In the middle of the day? Not very subtle.
— The Lamborghini, then. Much more subtle.

— I suppose they're gonna lock me up as well... as your accomplice.
— Accomplice? I'm gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea.

— Whenever you stitch yourself up, you do make a bloody mess.
— Yeah. It makes me learn from my mistakes.
— You ought to be pretty knowledgeable by now, then.

— Today you get to say "I told you so."
— Today, I don't want to. But I did bloody tell you.

— A long time ago, I was in Burma... and my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders... by bribing them with precious stones... but their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby... the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
— So why steal them?
— Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just wanna watch the world burn.

— You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
— It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.

— Why bats, Master Wayne?
— Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

— The bandit, in the forest in Burma, did you catch him?
— Yes.
— How?
— We burned the forest down.

— As a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
— What symbol?
— Something elemental, something terrifying.

They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman. He can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make. The right choice.