50 Important Quotes You Should Pay Attention to in Jojo Rabbit

• #11: These banks used to be full of lovers. There’d be singing, dancing, romance.
• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Listing, asyndeton

#12: Love is the strongest thing in the world.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Metaphor

#13: You’ll know it when it happens. You’ll feel it. A pain.

•   Character: Rosie
•   Technique: Truncated sentence, anaphora

#14: Like butterflies. It’s like you’re full of butterflies.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Simile, idiom, motif

#15: Well, the thing is… I love you. I know you think of me as a younger brother and you’re too old anyway but–  Man, it’s hot in here.

• Character: Jojo
• Technique: Humour

War and Propaganda Quotes

#16: And even though it would appear our country’s on the back foot and that there really isn’t much hope us of winning this war, apparently we’re doing just fine.

• Character: Klenzendorf
• Technique: Comedic understatement, idiom

#17: It has been scientifically proven that we Aryans are 1000 times more advanced and civilised than any other race.

• Character: Fraulein Rahm
• Technique: Hyperbole

#18: Great idea! I give you full permission to send this ten-year-old child off to war. Someone give this guy a gun!

•   Character: Rosie
•   Technique: Sarcasm, exclamation

#19: Also, you could hand out some of this propaganda and deliver these conscriptions.

• Character: Fraulein Rahm
• Technique: Comedic understatement

#20: And my papa, they say he makes desserts instead of fighting. But I know he’s still fighting, for you, for me, and for Germany.

•   Character: Jojo
•   Technique: Pun, anaphora

#21: I won’t let my brain be bossed around by her, mein Führer.

• Character: Jojo
• Technique: Irony, synecdoche

#22: He’s a fanatic. It took him three weeks to get over the fact his grandfather wasn’t blonde.

•   Character: Rosie
•   Technique: Hyperbole, humour

#23: How do you love a son like this, a kid who believes the things he does? In the end, you have no choice.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Hypophora

#24: I love my country. It’s war I hate.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Juxtaposition, epistrophe

#25: So, I’d like you to draw a picture of where Jews live. A typical hive; where you all sleep, eat, and where the Queen Jew lays the eggs.

• Character: Jojo
• Technique: Zoomorphism, incongruity

#26: Jojo: I said to draw where Jews live. This is just a stupid picture of my head./ Elsa: Yeah, that’s where we live.

• Characters: Jojo, Elsa
• Technique: Sarcasm, dialogue

#27: You’re not a Nazi, Jojo. You’re a 10 year old kid who ‘likes’ Swastikas and ‘likes’ dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.

• Character: Elsa
• Technique: Sarcasm

#28: I am beginning to question your loyalty to myself and the party. You say you are a patriot but where is the evidence?

• Character: Adolf
• Technique: Rhetorical question

#29: Y’know, I’m not sure we chose the right side. I’m beginning to wonder if we might be the bad guys.

• Character:  Yorkie
• Technique: Dramatic irony, comedic understatement, colloquialism

Jojo Rabbit Quotes — Rilke

#30: He knelt down like a proper gentleman, recited a poem by Rilke, and when I said ‘yes’ we danced into the night.

• Character: Elsa
• Technique: Intertextuality, motif

#31: Oh of course, your favourite, Rilke. Jewish mother.

• Character: Elsa
• Technique: Sarcasm

#32: It’s like my favourite poet Rilke says: “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go.

• Character: Jojo
• Technique: Intertextuality

#33: Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. -Rainer Maria Rilke

• Character: Jojo
• Technique: Intertextuality, truncated sentence, juxtaposition

Elsa Quotes

#34: I’m not a ghost Johannes, I’m something worse. But I think you already know that, don’t you? You know what I am.

Technique: Hypophora, motif

#35: Go on then, tell them. But you know what happens if you do? I’ll say you helped me. And your mother too. Then we’ll all be kaput.

Technique: Hypophora, truncates sentence, slang

#36: We’re like you but human.

Technique: Sarcasm

#37: There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God.

Technique: Imagery, religious allusion (to Hebrew Bible)

#38: Perhaps we’re all ghosts now but we just don’t know it.

Technique: Metaphor, motif

#39: No, their heads are too thick for us to penetrate. Like birds, our true language sounds like singing. Crystals, glass and gold.

Technique: Humour, imagery, simile

#40: Just ask Pissaro, Modigliani, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Mr. Moses and the king of them all, Jesus Christi, Amen.

Technique: Listing, religious allusion, cultural allusion, literary allusion

#41: Well sometimes he’d prefer I was dead. Wouldn’t you, little Frankenstein?

Technique: Irony, literary allusion, symbolism (Creator and the Monster)

#42: Jew and Nazi are not friends.

Technique: Juxtaposition

Dance Quotes

#43: We have to dance to show God we are grateful to be alive.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Motif

#44: Dancing’s for people who are free. It’s escape from all of this.

• Character: Rosie
• Technique: Motif

#45: Jojo: What is the first thing you’ll do when you’re free?/ Elsa: Dance.

• Character: Jojo, Elsa
• Technique: Motif, dialogue

Rosie Quotes

#46: Mama Lion worries about her cub, that’s all. Especially when papa Lion isn’t here.

• Technique: Zoomorphism, metaphor

#47: Now, you’re going to pluck up your courage, walk out that door and have a fantastic adventure. Okay?

•   Technique: Idiom

#48: And that’s all you have left, belief – hope that your only remaining child is not just another ghost.

• Technique: Motif, tautology

#49: Hey! No more politics ok? Dinner is neutral ground. This table is Switzerland.

•   Technique: Exclamation, metaphor, humour

#50: Surprise, surprise, your shoelaces are undone. Again.

•   Technique: Epizeuxis, motif