This is an oldie, but a goodie. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that lots of people who use this quote don't even know where it's from!
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
- bandit leader, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Being a Humphrey Bogart fan, I've seen the movie about three or four times, although none recent so maybe it's time for another viewing! Anyway, it's a pretty critical point in the story that this dialogue occurs, and yet that's not what people recall. They just remember the "steenking badges" reference.
In fact, a site called Stinking Badges has sprung up that lists all of the references to those lines, starting with the source and running all the way up through Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles which probably did more than anything else to popularize the phrase. There are even some references from last year listed there.
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