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Great Lines, Guns, Knife to a Gun Fight, Knives, Movie Quotes, Movies, Quotes, Rhetoric, The Untouchables
“Never bring a knife to a gunfight!”
It really is a bad-ass line. It’s the kind of thing you’d say to put someone else right in line. The line comes with a few variations, of course, but all of them just smack of really great smack-downatude. You think about saying that line, and you can practically hear the people around you going ‘booom!’ as the object of your derision shrinks in abject humiliation.
I wonder how many people remember where this line comes from?
…or how the scene worked out in the end?
Yeah, there’s always another gun.
Funny thing – I heard that line in Chilcoot Charlie’s about 15 years before Costner and Connery shared their version of “The Untouchables” with us…
The other cool line from the Costner/Connery “Untouchables” = ” . . . they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue.”
Also a bad idea to bring a gun to a knife fight, as Inosanto demonstrates …