Replies to famous quotes

[Mililalil XXIV]

Ever notice in a movie that the scene in which a great quote is said seems to so put the spotlight on the main character that the person directly spoken to seems receded into a cloud of cloudy cloudiness?

Example:
Someone says "I coulda been a contendah; I coulda been a somebody!"
Are you aware of the other person to whom this was addressed?
So what does he/she rejoin?
"Yep! Yep! I could just have seen it by now!"

Humphrey Bogart says his bit:
"Of all the gin-joints, in all the cities (correct me if I'm wrong), in all the world, she had to come waltzing into this one (or something to that effect)!"
Sam(?) retorts:
"Aw, naww, naww, it's gettin' much too late for all your nonsense."

Get the idea?

Now you try! Yes, YOU!

[Stanislaw]

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio": a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing.

HORATIO
What's that, my lord?

the rest o the speech is usually forgotten, and mostly never is Horatio's response.

of course this be from Hamlet 5:1 I believe.

[Mililalil XXIV]

Julius Caesar: Veni, vidi, vici !
One standing near by:
Well, just ye better speak up or forever hold your peace! Oh, don't you look at me like that, you clever schemer, you.
And who are you doing this for? This is getting out of hand! You don't make your own meals; you don't buy your own gold; and you certainly haven't been cleaning up after your mess!
What do you fancy yourself? A Caesar? A show-boy man?
Julius:
Next time don't nag after I have fed your ears with a wonderful saying! Anyways, I still say "Veni, vidi, vici", whether you care to shut up or not.
Woohoo! Look on me, oh lowly man! See who speaks the pithy dictum, and shut up!
All that day, every time the other man started to antagonize Julius, he replied, "I have but three words to say! We can brand them onto your mental notepad, at the top of your priorities, if you have so soon forgotten them".
True story? Do not those words linger in our ears, a wonderful aftertaste of just another day in a life of Julius?

[Mililalil XXIV]

"Doctor Livingstone I presume?", asked Henry Stanley.
Susi replied, "Who, Doctor Livingstone? Yeah, I told you he's Dr. Livingstone! Do you need reminding that I am his servant, Susi?"

[Pendragon]

Nathan Hale: "I regret that I have but one live to give for my country!"

Hangman: "Cor, blimey, sor, ef I dun't uz well. See, they pays me b'body count, an' yew ain' worth but a shillin'!"