Blake's 7 Quotes

Orac: You are carrying weapons. You will remove them.
Blake: We'd prefer to keep them with us.
Orac: You will remove them!
Blake: No.
(Orac fires at the ground in front of them)
Blake: We will remove them.

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Avon: Can you stand?
Vila: Why would I want to?

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Ensor: I disapprove of weapons.
Blake: So do I, but I disapprove of dying even more.

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(Avon shoots Travis in the hand just as he is about to fire)
Blake: Good shot, Avon.
Avon: I was aiming for his head.

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Orac: Modesty would be dishonesty.

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Blake: Avon - concentrate on Zen. Give priority to the detectors and the navigation systems. And then see if you can get us some scans.
Avon: Is that all? What shall I do with the other hand?

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Vila: When you get Zen working, ask him to prescribe something for a headache, will you? I've got this shocking pain right behind the eyes.
Avon: Have you considered amputation?

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Vila: If it ever comes to a showdown, my money's on Blake. Well, half of it. I'll put the other half on Avon.

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Jenna: Perhaps we could chew our way out.

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Jenna: What happened to your head?
Vila: One of the guards didn't like me.

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Vila: Stop worrying, Cally, I'll be back soon. Tell you what, I'll bring you back a present! What would you like, Cally? Name it, and it's yours...
Cally: A necklace, Vila. Made from your teeth.

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(An enforcer points a gun at Avon and Gan)
Enforcer: You two, out.
Avon: Why?
Enforcer: You'd prefer not to know.
Avon: Your professional simplicity is beginning to irritate me.

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Central Control(on Cally): There's a lunatic woman threatening to destroy the city!

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Jenna: It's enough to fry your eyeballs.
Avon: …daintily put.
Jenna: Must be the company I keep.

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Avon: It could have been frying eyeballs you heard.
Jenna: …daintily put.

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Vila: And the Aurons punished you for your defiance, didn't they?
Tarrant: Were you exiled?
Cally: Yes. Why d'you imagine I've never gone back? (Looking at Avon) Affection for him?

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Tarrant: Democracy. You're outvoted, Avon. Three to two.
Vila: Four to one. I like to stay with the winners whenever possible.

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Avon: The trouble with the people of Auron is that they all suffer from a superiority complex.
Vila: You should get on with them then.
Avon: Too good to become involved with the rest of humanity.
Cally: That's not true. Just because we happen to be neutral...
Avon: [Interuppting] Neutrality or pacifism: it all boils down to the same gutless inanity.

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Tarrant: This should snap her out of it.
Vila: That stuff would snap an asteroid out of orbit!

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Avon: Ironic, isn't it? We were hoping to use the Terra Nostra to attack the Federation, only to discover that it is already being used to support it.
Vila: Where are all the good guys?
Blake: Could be looking at them.
Avon: What a very depressing thought.

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Avon: Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.

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Cally: Sooner or later, Blake is going to attack Federation Central Control on Earth itself.
Vila: Later. Much later.
Avon: And alone, probably.
Jenna: I doubt that.
Gan: He wouldn't be alone if you just left him, Avon.
Avon: You would stay with him?
Gan: Yes.
Avon(smirks): Virtually alone, then.

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Avon: [Over communicator to Vila] Liberator? [No response] Idiot! Wake up!

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Vila: They stand as much chance as a bubble in a black hole.

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Tarrant: How do we approve of something we don't know about?
Avon: You could try trusting me.
Tarrant: All right, Avon, we'll try trusting you. Just don't expect us to make a habit of it.

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Avon: It is a triple-A security installation.
Vila: We have got into those before.
Avon: Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me you're in favour of this idea?
Vila: No! Not exactly...I just don't think it's stupid. Perhaps...maybe I'm on your side, Cally.
Blake: It's not a question of sides, Vila.
Avon(to Vila): No, it's a question of intelligence. So your opinion has very little relevance.

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Jenna: Maybe IMIPAK is another Orac. If we captured it, perhaps we could breed from them.

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(regarding ejecting weight from a shuttle to make it light enough to reach orbit)
Avon: Not enough! Not nearly enough! Dammit, what weighs seventy kilos?
Orac: Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon.
Avon: Vila, are you here? I need your help.

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Vila: Avon's idea of diplomacy is to break your legs then say "Lean on me."

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Blake: Zen's best guess is that he's… here. Offers?
Gan: Well, let's go and get him.
Avon: Gung ho?

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