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'''Mr. Bennet''': You think that, Jane, if it gives you comfort.|''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|the TV adaptation, not the book]])}}

 

* In ''[[X-Men 1]]'', when Magneto is making his final speech to the heroes about how the turn-everyone-into-a-mutant-beam is going to bring peace to the world and is worth the sacrifice, Wolverine is not impressed. He quips that if Magneto really believed everything he was saying, he would have just used himself to power the doomsday apparatus rather than Rogue. [[Fridge Brilliance|One realizes]] that, if Magneto had in fact done this, his plan would have succeeded without a hitch (though considering that he sees himself as the one thing keeping mutants out of the death camps, he wouldn't sacrifice himself unless he was 100% certain of the outcome).

* A villain-to-hero version occurs in the 2003 remake of ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]''.

[''Stella responds by {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|punching him in the face]]}}''.] }}

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Elizabeth to Jack Sparrow.

'''Sparrow''': Keep tellin' yourself that, darling. }}

 

* Performed by The Doctor on the villain of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Boom Town", who was trying to rationalise that she wasn't pure evil because {{spoiler|she let one of her victims go. The Doctor sharply points out that sparing a single life doesn't mean jack if you are engaging in a plot to blow Cardiff off the map}}.

* In ''[[Spaced]]'', Tim uses this line during the ''[[Tekken]]'' scene when Daisy protests that "spending hours bogeling to Aswad" was research:

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* At the end of the canon route of ''[[Blaze Union]]'', this seems to be what Medoute is ''trying'' to say to {{spoiler|Gulcasa}}; her own [[Fantastic Racism]] makes her rationale very shaky, however, and this quickly degenerates into a vicious and painful argument in which everything the former accuses is met with a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] and everything the latter tries to defend himself with gets a [[Shut Up, Kirk]].

* As part of an [[Old Save Bonus]], in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', if the hero from the [[Dragon Age Origins|original game]] married Alistair and took the throne with him, he'll refer to her as "the old ball and chain" when he shows up for his little [[Previous Player Character Cameo|cameo]].

'''Bann Teagan''': You keep telling yourself that, Your Majesty. }}