Pulp Fiction — Movie Quotes

Recited to a terrified young man moments before an execution in the opening apartment scene, and revisited in the closing diner confrontation, where Jules admits he never thought about what it meant.

The film's central paradox: a paraphrased, partly invented version of Ezekiel 25:17 that Jules first uses as pre-murder theatre and later takes seriously as self-judgement. Voted the fourth greatest film speech of all time in a 2004 poll, it turned Samuel L. Jackson into an icon by blending menace and charisma into something Hollywood hadn't seen before.

Vincent explains to Jules what the French call a Quarter Pounder while the two drive to a killing, in the film's most quoted piece of small talk.

The purest statement of the film's method: an entirely irrelevant conversation about European fast food that makes you like these men just before they commit murder. The apparent triviality heightens the shock when the violence arrives.

Shouted at a cowering young man in the apartment, moments before the Ezekiel recitation, as Jules toys with his victim.

Language weaponised. Jules turns an interrogation into a performance in which words themselves become the instrument of terror, and the line passed straight from the screen into everyday speech.

Butch says it to Fabienne after the pawnshop ordeal, as the two ride away from the worst day of his life.

A flat, exhausted announcement that a nightmare is over — deadpan closure delivered in the most absurd possible circumstances. Like several of the film's lines, it became part of everyday language.

Spoken in the pawnshop basement after Butch returns to free him, redirecting all of Marsellus's rage away from Butch and onto his captors.

The moment the underworld's sovereign reclaims his authority — an improvised threat so vivid it entered the language as a stock phrase for disproportionate retribution.