Knives Out (2019) - Quotes

Motive and Mystery in Every Situation

Taglines: Everyone has a motive. No one has a clue.

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Recognition of Guilt from the Beginning

Marta Cabrera: When did you know I had something to do with Harlan Thrombey's death?

Benoit Blanc: [''Indicates a drop of dried blood on her shoe''] Ever since you first set foot in front of me. .

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Literary References in Detective Conversations

Benoit Blanc: [[W:Truffle pig|Truffle pigs] Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. ]. I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow.

Marta Cabrera: [[Gravity's Rainbow] ].

Benoit Blanc: It's a novel.

Marta Cabrera: Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.

Benoit Blanc: Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law. Et voila, my method. I observe the facts without biases of the head or heart. I determine the arc's path, stroll to its terminus and the truth falls at my feet.

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Investigation Request Amidst Uncertainty

Benoit Blanc: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to request that you all stay until the investigation is completed.

Linda Drysdale: What?

Joni Thrombey: Can we ask why? Has something changed?

Benoit Blanc: No...

Joni Thrombey: No, it hasn't changed, or no, we can't ask?

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Detective Skills Under Scrutiny

Marta Cabrera: You're not much of a detective, are you?

Benoit Blanc: [[murder] Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy ]er.

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The Exception That Proves the Rule

Marta Cabrera: What was that about will readings being boring?

Benoit Blanc: The exception that proves the rule.

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Untangling a Twisted Web

Benoit Blanc: This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet.

Ransom Drysdale: [[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|CSI; [W:KFC|KFC] What is this? ]: ]?

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Tension During Will Reading Discussion

Ransom Drysdale: That's some heavy-duty conjecture.

Walt Thrombey: Funny, Ransom, you skipped the funeral, but you're early for the will reading.

Ransom Drysdale: Up your ass.

Meg Thrombey: Oh, very nice!

Ransom Drysdale: [pointing to each family member who is shouting at him] Matter of fact, eat shit. How's that? Eat shit, eat shit, eat shit... definitely eat shit... We gotta do this more often.

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Expectations vs. Reality at a Will Reading

Marta Cabrera: I've never been to a will reading before.

Benoit Blanc: You'd think it'd be like a game show, but think of a community production of a tax return.

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A Letter Reveals Family Secrets

Harlan Thrombey: I've put all of it in this letter to her. Tomorrow, she gets it.

Richard Drysdale: Harlan, I'm warning you.

Harlan Thrombey: No. She deserves to know.

Richard Drysdale: You stay out of my marriage.

Harlan Thrombey: She deserves to know and you're gonna tell her.

Richard Drysdale: THE HELL I AM!!!

Harlan Thrombey: YOU TELL HER OR I WILL!!!

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Final Will and Testament of Harlan Thronby

Alan Stevens: I, Harlan Thronby, being of sound mind and body, yada-yada-yada. I hereby direct all my assets both liquid and otherwise, I leave in its entirety to Marta Cabrera. My entire ownership of Blood like Wine Publishing Company I leave to Marta Cabrera and the copyright of its catalog I leave in its entirety to Marta Cabrera.

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Meg Thrombey's Opinion on Jacob

Meg Thrombey: [[alt-right] (questioned about Jacob) He's an ] dipstick troll.

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Humorous Advice from Detective Lieutenant Elliot

Detective Lieutenant Elliot: OK, don't answer that if you're going to puke. Please.

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Commentary on an Inept Car Chase

Detective Lieutenant Elliot: That... was the dumbest car chase of all time.

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Surprising Revelation About a Character

Joni Thrombey: [[Twitter|tweet; [W:New Yorker magazine|New Yorker] Wait a minute - I read a ] about a ] article about you!

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The Complexity of Family Relationships

Joni Thrombey: Oh they're my family. I feel simultaneously freed by and supported by them, that balance of opposites is the nugget of Flam.

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Family Betrayal and Disinheritance Explained

Walt Thrombey: I think it means that our father finally came to his senses and cut this worthless little brat out of his will. (to Ransom) So I guess you're gonna have to sell the Beamer and give your notice at the country club and kick whatever fashion drug you're on, because if you think that after all the bridges you've burned, after all the shit you've said and after everything that you've put this family through for the past ten years that any of us are going to support you, that any of us are going to give you - like DAD liked to say - "a single red DIME", you're NUTS!

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Questioning a Father's Relationships

Linda Drysdale: [to Marta] Were you boinking my father?

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Claiming Family Heritage in Crisis

Linda Drysdale: We are the Thrombeys, goddammit! This is still our house!...Isn't it?

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Marta's Insight on Family Morality

Marta Cabrera: You want my insight into this family? None of them are murderers. That's my insight.

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Building a Beautiful Pattern Through Play

Marta Cabrera: I'm not playing to beat you, I'm playing to build a beautiful pattern.

Dismissive Reaction to Southern Accents

Ransom Drysdale: [[W:Foghorn Leghorn|Foghorn Leghorn] Oh just shut up! Shut up with that Kentucky-fried ] drawl!

Trust and Betrayal in Relationships

Benoit Blanc: [[drama] You and Harlan were "] mamas", you shared a love of twisting the knife into one another. You see, I don't believe he would have slipped it in halfway. No, no, no. I submit Harlan told you everything.

Overheard Words and Their Implications

Benoit Blanc: What were the overheard words by the Nazi child masturbatin in the bathroom? "My will" and "I'm warning you.

Benoit Blanc on Dogs and Character Judgement

Benoit Blanc: The best judge of character is a dog. I've found that to be true.

The Mystery of Providence and Its Depths

Benoit Blanc: [[grief; [youth; [age; [feelings] Why is ] the providence of ]? I don't know. But I'd imagine that ] deepens all ].

The Ambiguity of Physical Evidence

Benoit Blanc: Physical evidence can tell a clear story with a forked tongue.

The Complexity of Truth and Action

Benoit Blanc: [[truth] But the complexity and the gray lie not in the ], but what you do with the truth once you have it.

Response to Mistruths and Deceit

Benoit Blanc: You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruths.

The Complexity of Perceptions and Truths

Benoit Blanc: I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut. And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in the donut's hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center – it is not a donut hole at all, but a smaller donut with its hole, and our donut is not whole at all!