Guest: It smells divine.
Hannibal: It is! I say that without ego. I don't require conventional reinforcement.

My husband's ego is not measured by conventional means.

Bedelia

Guest: You have a very good butcher.
Hannibal: I do indeed. The lamb must be newly slaughtered, the organs cooked the same day. I always oversee this process personally.

If I were like Hannibal, I would have killed you already, cooked you, ate you, and fed what was left of you to him. It's what he would do.

Will

Chiyo: Why are you looking for him, after he left you? With a smile?
Will: I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him.

Happy hunting.

Chilton

This is your best possible world, Will. You're not getting a better one.

Chilton

Jack: You told him we knew.
Will: I told him to leave because I wanted him to run.
Jack: Why?
Will: Because...because he was my friend. And because I wanted to run away with him.

Alana: You cannot see what you will not see.
Chilton: Until it shoves you out a window.

Will Graham has not had his breakthrough yet. He's saving that for Dr. Lecter.

Chilton

Forgiveness isn't all it's cracked up to be, Mr Verger.

Alana

You are alive because you didn't pull the glass out of your neck. Will Graham is alive because Hannibal likes him.

Chilton

Hannibal Quotes

Graham: What are you smiling at?
Lecter: Peaking behind the curtain, I'm just curious how the FBI goes about its business when it's not kicking in doors.

Lecter: What are we looking for?
Graham: At this stage, anything really, but mostly anything peculiar.