Oz: (about Willow’s SAT score) Well, I can see why you’d be upset. (Willow looks hurt) That was my sarcastic voice.
Xander: You know, it sounds a lot like your regular voice.
Oz: I’ve been told that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 8 – “Lover’s Walk”
‘Stephen,’ he cried, with a meretricious affectation of gaiety, ‘just toss this off, will you, and we will get under way. Is your great-coat warming?’
‘I will not,’ said Stephen. ‘It is another of your damned possets. Am I in childbed, for all love, that I should be plagued, smothered, destroyed with caudle?’
‘Just a sip,’ said Jack. ‘It will set you up for the journey. Mrs Moss does not quite like your travelling; and I must say I agree with her. However, I have brought you a bottle of Dr Mead’s Instant Invigorator; it contains iron. Now just a drop, mixed with the posset.’
‘Mrs Moss – Mrs Moss – Dr Mead – iron, forsooth,’ cried Stephen. ‘There is a very vicious inclination in the present age, to –’
‘Great-coat, sir,’ said Killick. ‘Warm as toast. Now step into it before it gets cold.’
They buttoned him up, tweaked him into shape, and carried him downstairs, one at each elbow, so that his feet skimmed the steps, to where Bonden was waiting by the chaise. They packed him into the stifling warmth with understanding smiles over his head as he cried out that they were stifling him with their God-damned rugs and sheepskins – did they mean to bury him alive? Enough damned straw underfoot for a regiment of horse.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
Atherton: I accept.
Mal: That’s great! What?
Gentleman: There has been a challenge.
Atherton: I hope you’re prepared, Captain.
Mal: What? You all talking about a fight? That’s fine. Let’s get out of here.
Inara: It’s not a fist fight, Mal.
Gentleman: The duel will be met tomorrow morning at Cadrie Pond.
Mal: Well, why wait? Where’s that guard? He collected a whole mess of pistols.
Gentleman: If you require it, any gentleman here can give you use of a sword.
Mal: Use of a sw—what?
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
McCoy: Well, I had to see it to believe it.
Spock: Explain.
McCoy: They’re about to lop off the captain’s professional head, and you’re playing chess with the computer.
Spock: That is true.
McCoy: Mr. Spock, you’re the most cold-blooded man I’ve ever known.
Spock: Why, thank you, Doctor.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 14 – “Court Martial”
Giles: He’s lying! Hit him!
Buffy: I don’t think he is, and shut up.
Giles: You’re *my* slayer, go knock his teeth down his…
Buffy: Giles! (to Ethan) What demon?
Ethan: I don’t remember.
(Buffy punches Ethan)
Giles: Yes!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 6 – “Band Candy”
There were times when there was something very young and slightly ridiculous about Jack; it was a side of him that Sophie loved beyond measure; but no one looking at him now, or in action, would have believed in its existence.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
(Mal collides with Inara while dancing.)
Mal: It’s possible you were right, and this ain’t mykind of party.
(Atherton grabs Inara by the arm and marches her away.)
Mal: Whoa now. Watch yourself. Ain’t no need for hands on.
Atherton: Excuse me, she’s not here with you, Captain. She’s mine.
Mal: Yours? She don’t belong to nobody.
Atherton: Money changed hands, which makes her mine tonight. And no matter how you dress her up she’s still a…
(Mal decks Atherton.)
Mal: Turns out this is my kind of party!
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
Kirk: Mister Spock.
Spock: Captain.
Kirk: There’s really something I don’t understand about all of this. Maybe you can explain it to me. Logically, of course. When you jettisoned the fuel and ignited it, you knew there was virtually no chance of it being seen, yet you did it anyhow. That would seem to me to be an act of desperation.
Spock: Quite correct, Captain.
Kirk: Now we all know, and I’m sure the doctor will agree with me, that desperation is a highly emotional state of mind. How does your well-known logic explain that?
Spock: Quite simply, Captain. I examined the problem from all angles, and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances, the only possible action would have to be one of desperation. Logical decision, logically arrived at.
Kirk: I see. You mean you reasoned that it was time for an emotional outburst.
Spock: Well, I wouldn’t put it in exactly those terms, Captain, but those are essentially the facts.
Kirk: You’re not going to admit that for the first time in your life, you committed a purely human emotional act?
Spock: No, sir.
Kirk: Mister Spock, you’re a stubborn man.
Spock: Yes, sir.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 13 – “The Galileo Seven”
Xander: I don’t get this. The candy’s supposed to make you feel all immature and stuff, but I’ve had a ton, and I don’t feel any dif… Never mind.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 6 – “Band Candy”
Jack, wrapped in a boat-cloak, with a dark-lantern between his knees, sat in the stern-sheets, filled with pleasurable anticipation. He had not seen Stephen Maturin for a vast stretch of time, made even longer by the grinding monotony of the blockade: how lonely he had been for the want of that harsh, unpleasant voice! Two hundred and fifty-nine men living in promiscuity, extreme promiscuity for the lower-deck, and the two hundred and sixtieth a hermit: of course it was the common lot of captains, it was the naval condition, and like all other lieutenants he had strained every nerve to reach this stark isolation; but admitting the fact made precious little odds to what it felt like. No consolation in philosophy. Stephen would have seen Sophie only a few weeks ago, perhaps even less; he would certainly have messages from her, possibly a letter. He put his hand secretly to the crinkle in his bosom, and lapsed into a reverie. A moderate following sea heaved the launch in towards the land; with the rhythm of the waves and the long even pull and creak of the oars he dozed, smiling in his almost sleep.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
The Love Pirate 