Mad Men

"In my heart, I'm on the verge of throwing you in front of a cab."

"Saturday night in the suburbs — that's when you really want to blow your brains out."

"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink, because it's what men do."

"Look, I want to tell you something, because you're very dear to me and I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I've ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides."

"Now that I can finally understand you, I am less impressed with what you have to say."

"What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons."

"I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been."

"I don't wanna make a career out of being there so you can kick me when you fail."

"If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan."

"You're not a good man. You never were. Even before we were married — and you know what I'm talking about."

Betty: Say what you always say.
Don: Everything's gonna be okay.

"When you don't have any power, you have to delay things."

"Sometimes when people get what they want, they realize how limited their dreams were."

"I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent."

Peggy: Are there others like you?
Michael: I don't know. I haven't been able to find any.

"My mother raised me to be admired."

"One day, you're there. And then, all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize: it's just gone."

"Nostalgia: it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship; it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel; it's called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels: around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved. "

"When God closes a door, he opens a dress."


"You need three ingredients for a cocktail. Vodka and Mountain Dew is an emergency."

"I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean I guess."

"You want to be taken seriously. Stop dressing like a little girl."

"Remember...you're not dying for me. Because I never liked you."

Don Draper: It's your job. I give you money, you give me ideas.
Peggy Olson: And you never say thank you.
Don Draper: That's what the money is for!

"You're a whore."

"As far as I’m concerned, as long as men look at me that way, I’m earning my keep."

“I'm not a solution to your problem. I'm another problem.”

"This isn't China. There's no money in virginity."

"You don't cover for me. You manage people's expectations."

"Make it short, but significant."

"You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are."

"You had no right to fill a man like that with ambition."

"You wanna be somebody's discovery, not somebody's wife."

Greg Harris: Joannie, I don’t want to have a fight right now.
Joan Harris: Then stop talking.

"Don't fool yourself. This is some very dirty business."

Michael: I feel bad for you.
Don: I don't think about you at all.

"Yeah, and if I had met her first I would've known not to throw it away."

"Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK."

"I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk."

"He has a place in South Hampton. I'm not saying that I've seen it, but it's beautiful."

"You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

"So we're supposed to believe that people are living one way and secretly thinking the exact opposite? That's ridiculous."

"And no one will tell you this, but you can’t be a man. Don’t even try. Be a woman. Powerful business when done correctly. Do you understand what I’m saying, dear?"

"Only boring people are bored."

"You want to feel shitty right up until the point where I take your dress off."