Quotes
Queen Hippolyte: I named this island "Paradise" for an excellent reason. There are no men on it. Thus, it is free of their wars, their greed, their hostility, their... barbaric... masculine... behavior.
[she bites her hand]
Share thisWonder Woman: I can avoid that bullet faster than you can shoot, Mr. Norman.
Share thisWonder Woman: You obviously have little regard for womanhood. You must learn respect!
Share thisWonder Woman: Women are the wave of the future, and sisterhood is stronger than anything!
Share thisQueen Hippolyte: And this is your Golden Lasso. Besides being made from an indestructible material, it also carries with it the power to compel people to tell the truth. Use it well, and with compassion.
Share thisQueen Hippolyte: Go in peace my daughter. And remember that, in a world of ordinary mortals, you are a Wonder Woman.
Share thisDiana: You wanted to see me, Mother?
Queen Hippolyte: You may leave his care to others.
Diana: Well thank you, but I would prefer to stay on until I'm certain that he's well.
Queen Hippolyte: That was a command, not a request.
Diana: Am I allowed to ask why?
Queen Hippolyte: You are very intelligent.
Diana: I am your daughter.
Queen Hippolyte: There are so many things you don't know. Do you have any idea of your age?
Diana: By what standard?
Queen Hippolyte: By the earth's clock.
Diana: No.
Queen Hippolyte: You are immortal, as are all of us on Paradise Island. If you should ever leave here, you could revert to a human being.
Diana: Why are you telling me this now, Mother?
Queen Hippolyte: Because I sense what might happen between you and that man. We are stronger, wiser and more advanced than all those people in their jungles out there. Our civilization is perfection!
Diana: No! There's something missing, Mother. When I look at Steve Trevor, I feel things. Things I've never known before.
Queen Hippolyte: There are some things that are better not known. Young Amazon minds are best occupied with athletic discipline and higher learning.
Queen Hippolyte: We now know why he was in the area. That man must be returned to his own country.
Diana: But why, Mother?
Queen Hippolyte: For his safety - and ours. One of our young Amazon girls will escort him to his country, and then return to Paradise Island.
Diana: But all the girls will want that task.
Queen Hippolyte: I know. To forestall any ill feelings, I have planned a tournament of athletic games, by which I alone shall determine the strongest, nimblest, and most likely aspirant for the assignment.
Diana: A tournament! That's a wonderful idea, Mother. I look forward to participating in the games myself.
Queen Hippolyte: You? Never!
Diana: But, Mother! I don't understand...
Queen Hippolyte: [interrupting] I cannot risk my only begotten child, our princess, on a mission in behalf of the life of a... a savage!
Share thisWonder Woman: [Walks through, Steve's office door] I knew, it was you all the time.
Marcia: You, didn't know anything.
Wonder Woman: Well I knew, that you've had a friend, who carried a machine gun in her purse, and you won't get away with whatever you're doing.
Marcia: Oh, then whose gonna stop me?
[points a gun at Wonder Woman]
Wonder Woman: You of all people, should realize how useless, that gun is against me.
Marcia: I don't need a gun to take you, Wonder Woman. I was Nuremberg Judo Champ!
Wonder Woman: I assume,
[closes door]
Wonder Woman: that that is suppose to impress me.
Marcia: [Karate Yell] Hah!
[Wonder Woman and Marcia gets into a tussle]
Wonder Woman: [Ending their climatic fight] They didn't teach you, to fight fair!
[Punches Marcia, in the face]
Wonder Woman: [Walks to Marcia, tying her to the chair with her golden lasso] Now, you are going to tell the truth.
Marcia: I... I...
[gasps for air]
Wonder Woman: Don't bother fighting it, that lasso compels you to be honest, and you must answer every question. Where is Steve Trevor?
Marcia: [Out of breath] M-M-My apartment, 20-2809 West 20th Street, Chevy Chase.
Share thisQueen Hippolyte: The skirt can be discarded if it should prove cumbersome.
[Diana discards it almost immediately]
Share thisColonel Von Blasko: Speak English, if you don't mind, Herr Kapitän, for secrecy's sake.
Share thisQueen Hippolyte: [to Diana] You're too young to remember how we women were slaves in Rome, and Greece... I promised myself it would never happen again.
Share thisAshley Norman: [astonished by Wonder Woman] Why, Betty Grable looks like a boy compared to you!
Share thisAshley Norman: [pointing a gun at Steve Trevor] Don't make a move!
Bad Guy: Or we gonna mess up that pretty little soldier suit of yours...
Share thisMarcia: You may be fast, Wonder Woman, but nobody can be in two places at the same time!
[laughs]
Wonder Woman: It's over, Marcia, you're through.
Marcia: You may have me, but the Third Reich will never be through. It will go on a thousand years!
Wonder Woman: I heard the Greeks and the Romans say the same thing.
Marcia: You heard that?
Share thisColonel Von Blasko: I prefer not to soil my hands on female flesh, but if you insist...
[Wonder Woman knocks him out with a punch to the jaw]
Share thisBankrobber: Shoot her, Nunzio.
Nunzio: Me? I never shot a woman before, ' cept in self defence.
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