The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Hoyt: So go get some real decency, son. And unfuck this mess.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Giles: [interpreting Elisa] I can either save him, or let him die.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: What am I doing, interviewing the fucking help? The shit cleaners. The piss wipers.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Zelda: [Elisa looks noticeably happier] Why you smilin', hon? Well stop lookin' like that. What happened?
[Elisa shakes her head to say "nothing"]
Zelda: Why? How? How? Does he - have a...?
[Elisa nods and uses her hands to describe what the Amphibian Man's penis looks like]
Zelda: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
[pause]

Zelda: Lor'...! Never trust a man. Even when he looks flat down there.
[laughs]

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Hoffstetler: [speaking Russian] As Lenin said, "There is no profit in last week's fish."

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Fleming: Now. I don't want to bolster or overstate the matter, but uh, this may very well be *the* most sensitive asset ever to be housed in this facility.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: [to the creature] Fuck. You *are* a god...

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Giles: [to Elisa, rapidly] Now, you said that - you know, he was worshiped like a god. Now, is he a god? I dunno if he's a god. I mean he ate a cat, so I mean, I don't, I don't know! I don't know, but... I mean, we have to keep him around, a while... Little while.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: [to Zelda and Elisa] Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?
Zelda: Something offensive?
Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way

here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, "That thing looks human." Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Hoyt: A man has the decency not to fuck up. Now that's one thing. That's real decent of him. But the other kind of decency - it doesn't really matter. We sell it, but it's an export. We sell it because we don't use it.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Giles: If I told you about her, what would I say? I wonder.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Bernard: Oh, and they want the - them happier. The family.
Giles: Happier?
Bernard: Mm.
Giles: Happier? The father looks like he just discovered the missionary position!

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: [to himself in the mirror] You deliver. You deliver, that's what you do, you deliver. Right? RIGHT?

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Zelda: [commenting on Elisa's demeanor] Yeah. That's good. Keep that up. Lookin' like you don't know anything. Lord help me if they ask me if I do! I'm not a good liar. Except Brewster. It takes a lotta lies to keep a marriage goin'.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Hoffstetler: He's bleeding. What happened?
Strickland: It's an animal, Hoffstetler. Just keepin' it tame.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: I do not fail. I deliver.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Zelda: Don't do this, Elisa. Don't do this!

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Mihalkov: [in Russian] Kill it. Destroy it.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Hoffstetler: This creature is intelligent. Capable of language... Of understanding emotions!
Strickland: So are the Soviets. The gooks. And we still kill them, don't we?

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Zelda: [after questioning Elisa about her evening] Lor'...! Never trust a man. Even when he looks flat down there.