Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Birds of a Feather (1993)

Paul Williams: The Penguin

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Quotes 

• [Penguin steps outside with a small case] 

  Bruce Wayne : [follows him]  Admiring the Vreeland jewelry, Mr. Cobblepot?

  The Penguin : Ah, Mr. Wayne, isn't it? Actually, I was thinking of adding this to her collection.

  [reveals a gold penguin brooch] 

  Bruce Wayne : [surprised]  I'm sorry. Maybe the rumors of your reform are *not* exaggerated.

  The Penguin : Anything's possible when love is involved.

• [last lines] 

  Veronica Vreeland : Oswald, I really was growing fond of you. It's too bad this had to happen.

  The Penguin : I suppose it's true what they say. Society is to blame. High society.

• The Penguin : And who says opera has to be boring?

• Pierce : [shackled to the floor]  What is this?

  The Penguin : The end of the show, when the fat bird sings!

• The Penguin : 'Tis better to have loved and lost, and made a small profit, than never to have loved at all!

• Veronica Vreeland : Oswald, if it's money you want I can get you more...

  The Penguin : SHUT UP! All I wanted from you, dearie, was a little friendship! That would have cost you nothing!

• The Penguin : [a batarang knocks his sword out of his hands]  Fashionably late, I see.

• The Penguin : [robbing a house]  Ah, Audubon. My personal favorite. Sorry about the intrusion, sir, but at least you've been ransacked by a man of impeccable taste.

• Pierce : Penguin, is that you? It's Pierce. I've got the money.

  The Penguin : I knew I could count on your kind.

  Pierce : Right. I'll just leave it here, and you can pick it up at your convenience.

  The Penguin : Not quite, my friend. Take exactly one step out of the booth, turn left, and start walking.

  Pierce : How far?

  The Penguin : You'll know when you get there.

  [doing so, Pierce screams as he falls down an open manhole] 

• The Penguin : Well, fellow rogues, it's great to be back.

  [seeing the empty, drafty room] 

  The Penguin : If you're trying to surprise me, you're doing an excellent job. Say, who's there? Two-Face? Croc? Joker, old shoe!

  Batman : None of the above, Penguin.

  The Penguin : Oh, no. Not you.

  Batman : Get used to it. Wherever you go, I'll be right behind you.

  The Penguin : Precisely where you belong. But you needn't bother. Haven't you heard? I've reformed, paid my debt to society and all that.

  Batman : We'll see. I just came to tell you to keep your beak clean.

• Batman : I knew you couldn't stay clean for more than one day.

  Veronica Vreeland : Let him go! He didn't do anything. It was those brutes.

  Batman : He wasn't with them?

  The Penguin : That's right, you vulgar vigilante. In my day, I associated with a much higher class of riffraff.

  Veronica Vreeland : I'm so sorry, Ozzie.

  The Penguin : As long as you weren't bruised, my peach.

  Batman : Peach?

  The Penguin : Why don't you be a good masked man and ride off into the night? This time, I'll clean up after you.

• The Penguin : Such an enchanting evening. But tell me, my dear, what are you hatching?

  Veronica Vreeland : Whatever do you mean?

  The Penguin : There's more to our encounter than meets my eagle eye. Isn't there?

  Veronica Vreeland : Why, Oswald, how could you think such a thing? I've always been captivated by your, um... your rapacious wit, not to mention that fine Roman nose.

  The Penguin : [smitten]  Naturally. Come, let us fly, my dove. Garcon, the check, if you please.

• Guard : So, today's the day, huh? Planning on making a big splash?

  The Penguin : No need. They never forget the true elite.

  Guard : Well, they got a lot to remember you by.

  The Penguin : Ah, but this time I'll reclaim my perch in high society as an upstanding bird. I've learned my lesson. Never again. Come. The cream of society awaits. A limousine is no doubt at the ready.

• The Penguin : [to Batman]  Won't you stay for a cup of cappuccino?

  [holds up a can of rat poison] 

• The Penguin : You again... and again and again!

• Pierce : [Penguin overhears]  Oh, will you relax? You've done him a favor.

  Veronica Vreeland : But, Pierce...

  Pierce : You said it yourself. That fat bird would never get invited to a party like this, not with those clothes, that waddle, those flippers.

  Veronica Vreeland : Oswald!

  The Penguin : Did she mention my fine Roman nose?