Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Best Quotes

Copyright Notice: It’s easy to see when our selected quotes have been copied and pasted, as you’re also copying our format, mistakes, and movie scene descriptions. If you decide to copy from us please be kind and either link back, or refer back to our site. Please check out our copyright policies here. Thanks!

Starring: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, Madelyn Cline

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Netflix mystery crime drama sequel written and directed by Rian Johnson. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) centers on tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), who invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. But when someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is put on the case.

Our Favorite Quotes:

'It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.' - Benoit Blanc (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

Dr. Peter Clayton: You can’t keep making excuses for every one of Miles Bron’s insane whims.
Lionel Toussaint: Genius always looks like insanity at first though, right? Isn’t that how he became Miles Bron?

Birdie Jay: [as they’re about to open the puzzle box] That’s silver. So this is it.
Lionel Toussaint: [as the puzzle box opens] All together now. One, two, three. Look at that.

Claire Debella: [reading the note left in the puzzle box] My dear friends, my beautiful disruptors, my closest inner circle.

Lionel Toussaint: [reading the note] We could all use a moment of normalcy. And so, you are cordially invited.

'You would lie for a lie, but you won't lie for the truth.' - Helen Brand (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Birdie Jay: [reading the note] For a long weekend on my private island!

Duke Cody: [reading the note] Where we will celebrate the bonds that connect us, and I hope your puzzle-solving skills are whetted.

Lionel Toussaint: [reading the note] Because you will also be competing to solve the mystery.

Claire Debella: [reading the note] Of my murder. Travel details to come. Please forward any dietary restrictions. Love and all my kisses, Miles.

'Genius always looks like insanity at first.' - Lionel Toussaint (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Duke Cody: Ma, where’s my speargun? I got to pack. Babe, get packing!
Whiskey: [referring to the puzzle box] What’s that?
Ma: I don’t know.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: I’ve got to say, the world’s greatest detective, I thought you’d be better at this.
Benoit Blanc: I think maybe this game’s just not my thing.

Benoit Blanc: I lose it between cases anyway. I think I might be going insane. My mind is a fueled-up racing car, and I got nowhere to drive it.

Benoit Blanc: I don’t need puzzles or games. The last thing I need is a vacation. I need danger, a hunt, a challenge. I need a great case.

'This rich-people s**t is weird.' - Helen Brand (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Birdie Jay: Hello, stranger danger.
Nickos: Mr. Blanc! You are stranger danger?
Benoit Blanc: No, that’s fine, Nikos. I don’t even know what that means.

Claire Debella: Oh, my God. Are you Benoit Blanc, the detective? Did you solve the murder of, what’s her name? The ballet dancer with the thing and the thing. That’s you?
Benoit Blanc: It is, in the flesh.

Duke Cody: Crew, we’ve arrived! Disruptors have assembled!

Lionel Toussaint: Benoit Blanc is going to help solve the mystery of Miles’s murder. This should be fun.
Birdie Jay: Cute.
Benoit Blanc: Well, we’ll see.

Claire Debella: [to Blanc] Excuse me, I love your accent. I had to try it.

'I think I might be going insane. My mind is a fueled-up racing car, and I got nowhere to drive it.' - Benoit Blanc (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Lionel Toussaint: [referring to Miles and Andi] In one legal move, he cut her out completely. Booted her without a dime, Social Network’d her.
Benoit Blanc: Lord. But he still invited her to this weekend?
Lionel Toussaint: The question isn’t, “Why did he invite her?” It’s, “Why did she show up?”

Lionel Toussaint: Oh, is that the name of the island in Greek? Pisces**te.

Duke Cody: [to Miles] When you throw a murder mystery party, you do it right, buddy.

Duke Cody: Alright. When does the murder mystery start?
Miles Bron: My man, patience. Patience.

'I've learned through bitter experience that an anonymous invitation is not to be trifled with.' - Benoit Blanc (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Miles Bron: Okay, look. I know you guys think I’m a hippie, but can we just take a second and fully inbreathiate this moment together?

Helen Brand: This rich-people s**t is weird.
Benoit Blanc: Thank you. I have occasionally put on the dog in my life, but this, this is stretching my stride-taking abilities.

Birdie Jay: It’s like an actual huge glass onion.
Miles Bron: It’s past, present and future. It’s what came before, where I am now, what I’ll leave to the world.

Miles Bron: This isn’t just a rich-a**hole house. I mean, it’s not even a house. It’s a commune. For creativity.

Miles Bron: I’ve got the predefinite detective in the world at my murder mystery party. That is so legit.
Benoit Blanc: Mr. Bron, I’ve learned through bitter experience that an anonymous invitation is not to be trifled with.

'If you want to shake things up, you start with something small. You break a norm, or an idea, or a convention, some little business model. But you go with things that people are kind of tired of anyway.' - Miles Bron Click To Tweet

Miles Bron: [to Blanc] Hey, try to solve the murder mystery if you can. I don’t want to toot my own horn, but it’s pretty next level.

Miles Bron: Grab a hard kombucha. They’re actually pretty good. You know, Jared Leto sent them over. I think he wants me to invest.

Lionel Toussaint: [referring to his gun] Really, Duke?
Claire Debella: Oh, my God.
Duke Cody: [as he shoots the gun] Really.

'As it turns out, nobody wants you to break the system itself. But that is what true disruption is.' - Miles Bron (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Benoit Blanc: May I ask, if it isn’t too presumptuous of me, what first drew you all together? You’re such an eclectic bunch.
Miles Bron: I think disruptors recognize each other.

Miles Bron: And look at Duke. You think people looked at him and saw anything other than the beef? You think they saw the first influencer to have a million followers on Twitch?
Duke Cody: Yes, I did. Here it is. Deal with it.

'I keep returning, in my mind, to the Glass Onion. Something that seems densely layered, mysterious and inscrutable. But in fact, the center is in plain sight.' - Benoit Blanc Click To Tweet

Miles Bron: If you want to shake things up, you start with something small. You break a norm, or an idea, or a convention, some little business model. But you go with things that people are kind of tired of anyway. Everybody gets excited because you’re busting up something that everyone wanted broken in the first place. That’s the infraction point. That’s the place where you have to look within yourself, and ask, “Am I the kind of person who will keep going?” Will you break more things? Break bigger things? Are you willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? Because at that point, people are not going to be on your side. They’re going to call you crazy. They’re going to say you’re a bully. They’re going to tell you to stop.

Miles Bron: As it turns out, nobody wants you to break the system itself. But that is what true disruption is. And that is what unites all of us. We all got to that line and crossed it.

'I expected complexity. I expected intelligence. I expected a puzzle, a game. But that's not what any of this is. It hides not behind complexity, but behind mind-numbing obvious clarity. Truth is, it doesn't hide at all.' Click To Tweet

Helen Brand: That is the common thread here. Every single one of you is holding on for dear life to Miles Bron’s golden titties. And each of you, you’ll stab a friend in the back to hold on. That is what I believe.

Birdie Jay: Like Miles said, I’m a truth-teller. Some people can’t handle it.
Benoit Blanc: It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth. Don’t you think?
Birdie Jay: Are you calling me dangerous?
Benoit Blanc: Well, we’ll see.

'This entire day, a veritable minefield of malapropisms, and factual errors.' - Benoit Blanc (Glass Onion) Click To Tweet

Miles Bron: Welcome, gang. A few cocktails before I’m murdered.

Birdie Jay: Is this my Cuban Breeze?
Miles Bron: The drink that got us on the no-fly list at St. Barts. What else?
Birdie Jay: Well, hashtag, WorthIt.

See more Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Quotes

Benoit Blanc: [referring to his cocktail] Halle Berry. That has a kick.

Claire Debella: I mean, this place is the Tate Modern! Why would you hang a framed print of the Mona Lisa front and center? It’s like having a Che poster in your dorm room.

Miles Bron: [referring to the Mona Lisa painting] You know da Vinci invented a technique for brushstrokes that leave no lines? That’s how you can look straight at her, and her expression changes every time. Her smile’s there, then it disappears. Is she happy? Is she sad? Is it something else? This simple thing that you thought you were looking at, it suddenly takes on layers and depth so complex, it gives you vertigo.

Miles Bron: What did I say to you guys? The first night that we hung out at the Glass Onion, what did I say? I want to be responsible for something that gets mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa. Forever.
Benoit Blanc: And what does that mean?
Birdie Jay: Oh, it means immortality.

Miles Bron: Now the real fun starts.

Miles Bron: Alongside and underneath the partay, you’ve been charged with a serious task. Because tonight, in this very room, a murder will be committed. My murder.

Miles Bron: You will have to closely observe the crime. Consider what you know about each other. Know that across the island, I’ve hidden clues. Some may be helpful, some may misdirect. That’s for you to determine. But if anyone can name the killer, tell me how they achieved the murder, and, most importantly, what was the motive, that person wins our game. Any questions?

Benoit Blanc: Wait. What do we win?
Miles Bron: What do you mean? What do you want?
Benoit Blanc: No. No. Nothing. I just thought maybe there was a prize or something. An iPad, or like…
Miles Bron: Okay. Fine. Yeah. No. The winner gets an iPad.

Duke Cody: Once you’re dead, will we still be able to talk to you?
Miles Bron: Yeah. I’m not playing dead the whole weekend, dude.

Miles Bron: It’s designed to be hard. This will take the whole weekend.
Benoit Blanc: Well, this is truly delightful.

Benoit Blanc: Have we started already, is it…
Miles Bron: Well, the murder hasn’t happened
Benoit Blanc: Oh, yeah.
Miles Bron: Yeah, why not? As Watson said to Holmes…
Benoit Blanc: It was Birdie.

Benoit Blanc: A dramatic, passionate and colorful crime for a fashionista. Miss Birdie Jay. Unfortunately, this crime clashed with the presence of Benoit Blanc.

Miles Bron: What the hell? That was not the simplest thing to set up, so. It’s fine. It doesn’t matter. It’s just, I hired Gillian Flynn to write the whole thing.
Benoit Blanc: Oh, she’s quite good.
Miles Bron: She’s goddamn expensive, is what she is.

Benoit Blanc: [to Miles] I like the Glass Onion as a metaphor. An object that seems densely layered, but in reality the center is in plain sight. Your relationship with these people may seem complex, but look, what you’ve done this weekend is crystal clear. You’ve taken seven people, each of whom has a real-life reason to wish you harm, gathered them together on a remote island, and placed the idea of your murder in their heads. It’s like putting a loaded gun on the table and turning off the lights!

Benoit Blanc: For at least one person on this island, this is not a game.

Miles Bron: Andi used to tell me the truth. Nobody does that now. It’s all just fake smiles, and agenda, and people wanting what they think they’re owed. Hating you when you don’t give it to them, because that’s what you’re there for.

Lionel Toussaint: You have a Google Alert for the word “movie”?
Duke Cody: I like movies. Don’t hate.

Claire Debella: Are we going to talk about the elephant in the room? Or just going to throw a blanket over it and push through the weekend?
Helen Brand: Am I the elephant?
Claire Debella: Yeah. You’re the elephant!
Birdie Jay: You’re not that bad.

Helen Brand: My life was taken away from me by someone, by everyone in this room. My life! Do you even know what that means? Huh?
Birdie Jay: What Claire’s trying to say, is we’re sorry. We feel bad for you. What do you want?

Duke Cody: [to Helen, who’s pretending to be Andi, her twin sister] I’m tired of pretending like you’re the victim in this game. You just couldn’t hack it. You’re the loser. There. That’s the truth.

Miles Bron: Oh, jeez, detective. Your next assignment is who killed the party.

Miles Bron: Come on, this is our time. You feel it? What did we all used to say? Fake it till you make it, and have fun while we’re doing it. Yeah. It’s happening.

Miles Bron: I want a toast to The Disruptors. My OGs. I love you. All of you.
Duke Cody: Disruptors! Breaking it and making it!

Andino: [over radio] Dock is Pisces**te!
Lionel Toussaint: Piece-of-s**te.

Miles Bron: [to Blanc] I’ll pay you one billion dollars to tell me which one of them tried to kill me.

Helen Brand: I don’t understand.
Benoit Blanc: Please. Trust me. It’s all in plain sight. We only need one last piece of information, but only you can…
[suddenly a shot is fired at Helen, seemingly killing her]

Miles Bron: It makes no sense.
Benoit Blanc: It all makes perfect sense. Duke, Andi, this weekend. This ridiculous game that started well before we set foot on this island.
Lionel Toussaint: Will you explain it to us then, detective?
Benoit Blanc: No. I can peel back the layers. I can take it to a point. But what lies at the center, only one person can tell us who killed Cassandra Brand.

Helen Brand: [to Blanc, referring to her dead twin sister, Andi] It’s an invitation to his private island in Greece for next weekend. One of those little trips she’d go on with him and his group of s**theads. They like to call themselves The Disruptors. But I knew who they were, and I told her who they were. S**theads.

Helen Brand: Google said you are the world’s greatest detective.

Benoit Blanc: Listen, I want to be clear, huh? I am not Batman. I can find you the truth. I can gather evidence. I can present it to the police, and the courts, but that is where my jurisdiction ends.
Helen Brand: Yeah, but it’s you doing it instead of me. I’ll take those odds.

Benoit Blanc: [to Helen] Any feelings of reverence, or respect, that you had for me when you crossed my threshold, buttress those feelings now. Buttress them.

Helen Brand: Mr. Blanc, is this safe?
Benoit Blanc: No. No. One person will know the truth about you. From the moment you arrive on that island, the killer will know who you are, and what you are doing. And they certainly wouldn’t hesitate to kill again if it covers their tracks. I’m a detective, Helen. I’m not a bodyguard. I’m sorry. I can’t help you.
Helen Brand: No. One of those s**theads killed my sister. Do you really think we can get the son of a b**ch?

Benoit Blanc: [to Helen] So every one of The Disruptors perjured themselves to destroy Andi and shield Miles Bron. We, you and I, we need to find out why. Motive. Whose was strong enough to go one step further and commit murder?

Helen Brand: You must be really great at Clue, huh?
Benoit Blanc: I’m very bad at dumb things. My Achilles heel. Ticking boxes, running around, searching all the rooms. It’s just a terrible, terrible game.

Helen Brand: [referring to her pretending to be Andi] Duke and Birdie, I think they’re onto me. Or they were just being a**holes.
Benoit Blanc: Well, that’s not mutually exclusive.

Helen Brand: [referring to Andi] But I can’t imagine them killing her. I just can’t.
Benoit Blanc: Think of the crime, the nature of it. No, they’ve come to apologize, to make amends. And the murder itself, it’s nonviolent. Gentle even. They don’t even see her die. She just goes to sleep. No. No. They’re all more than capable.

Benoit Blanc: [to Helen] I think maybe you should take up drinking. You’re just killing it.

Benoit Blanc: Something is just teasing the edge of my brain. This case confounds me. It just confounds me.

Helen Brand: Oh, if I ever meet Jared Leto, I’m going to whoop his kombucha-brewing a**.

Helen Brand: This just never happens in Clue.
Benoit Blanc: That’s because it’s a terrible game.
Helen Brand: They all had a motive to protect Miles. They were all there that night. So what now, detective?

Benoit Blanc: Well, I keep returning, in my mind, to the Glass Onion. Something that seems densely layered, mysterious and inscrutable. But in fact, the center is in plain sight. And that is why this case has confounded me like no other. Why every complex layer peeled back has revealed another layer, and another layer, and come to naught. And that was the problem, right there.

Benoit Blanc: You see, I expected complexity. I expected intelligence. I expected a puzzle, a game. But that’s not what any of this is. It hides not behind complexity, but behind mind-numbing obvious clarity. Truth is, it doesn’t hide at all. I was staring right at it.

Benoit Blanc: The killer nearly struck my Achilles heel. But thank high heaven, at the last moment, I realized what had teased my brain through this entire case. “Inbreathiate.” It’s not a word.
Lionel Toussaint: What?
Benoit Blanc: It kind of sounds like one, but it’s just entirely made up. Now “reclamation”. Now, well, that is a word, but it’s the wrong word. This entire day, a veritable minefield of malapropisms, and factual errors.

Benoit Blanc: His dock doesn’t float. His wonder-fuel is a disaster. His grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best. He didn’t design the puzzle boxes. He didn’t write the mystery. Et voilà! It all adds up. The key to this entire case. And it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world, I assumed Miles Bron was a complicated genius. But why? Look into the clear center of this Glass Onion. Miles Bron is an idiot.

Miles Bron: Just tell us who tried to kill me.
Benoit Blanc: Nobody tried to kill you, you vainglorious buffoon.

Helen Brand: [referring to Miles, after Blan reveals he’s the murderer] Does he keep a vial of poison in his tooth or something? Is that a rich person thing?
Benoit Blanc: No, no, no, no. It’s just, it’s so much stupider than that.

Benoit Blanc: [referring to how Miles killed Duke] Pineapple juice! He just put pineapple juice in his whiskey. It’s so dumb.
Birdie Jay: Oh, it’s so dumb. It’s brilliant.
Benoit Blanc: No! It’s just dumb!

Benoit Blanc: You realize the opportunity laid out in front of you.

Benoit Blanc: [to Miles] You dim-witted, brainless jacka**! Your one murder, with any panache at all, and you stole the whole idea from me.

Miles Bron: So, if this was just us playing my murder mystery game, which we should have been doing all weekend, then Blanc wins an iPad Pro this time. But this is the real world. And in the real world, you need more than a neat, little detective story. You need evidence. And you’ve got nothing. Do you?

Helen Brand: You would lie for a lie, but you won’t lie for the truth. You’re still holding on to his titties. You s**theads.

Benoit Blanc: I’m sorry, Helen. I gave you the truth. This is where my jurisdiction ends. I have to answer to the police, the courts, the system. There’s nothing I can do. Except maybe, offer you some courage. And a reminder of why your sister walked away in the first place.

Miles Bron: [after Helen destroys Miles’s priceless possessions] Oh, fantastic! Oh, that’s so punk rock! What? You think you’re an alligator? You think you popped me like a gangster? No! You baby! You child! You feel better now? I hope your little b**ch tantrum gave you closure, because it accomplished nothing!
Helen Brand: Your fuel of the future just barbecued the world’s most famous painting, you dumba**.

Helen Brand: [to Miles] You’re ruined. And you did get your wish. To forever be remembered in the same breath as the Mona Lisa.

Benoit Blanc: Did you get the son of a b**ch?
Helen Brand: Yeah.
Benoit Blanc: You ready to go home?

Trailer: