Big Love

Big Love Season 1 Quotes

Season 1 Episode 12: "The Ceremony"

Barb [about Nicki]: Has she said anything to you about what she's wearing?
Margene: Nuh-uh.
Barb: Just try to get her to wear something a little more... I mean, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
Margene: Oh...
Barb: I don't want to hurt her feelings, but it's like walking into the Governor's mansion with a sign that says "Practicing Polygamist". She'll never listen to it coming from me, she'll think I'm attacking her. I mean, even just offer to do her hair
 • Rating: Unrated

Adaleen [to Rhonda]: The competition is over. Of course I found out. What kind of sister-wife do you take me for? Get in. Your little Roman holiday is over
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 11: "Where There's a Will"

Barb: I do not want the kids to go to the compound!
Nicki: All the kids or just your kids?
Barb: Any kids and certainly not mine. And mine include yours!
 • Rating: Unrated

Ernest Holloway [about the UEB Council]: They also talked about negotiating a contract with NASA to sell clay from one of the mines we own in Moab for the heat shields on the shuttle.
Bill: They don't believe we even went to the moon and yet they're in business with the agency that didn't go there
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 10: "The Baptism"

Cindy: Polygamy one hundred years ago was quaint; polygamy today is foul
 • Rating: Unrated

Nicki: Margene, you're grounded.
Margie: Excuse me?
Nicki: Or you're on probation. You do not involve our kids in your filthy habits.
Margie: No, no way. You have no authority over me.
Nicki: Authority? Wait just one minute. I'm second, you're third, get it?
Margie: Second's not first. It's nothing
 • Rating: Unrated

Margie: I am a terrible wife. I should've never married your father. And your mother.
Sarah: And Nicki.
Margie: Especially Nicki
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 9: "A Barbecue for Betty"

Sarah: It hurts to see you lie, dad. I hate that about this life. Watching you and mom hide, all of us having to hide
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Margie: Bennie, do you remember a few years ago a vote about me?
Ben: Which one?
Margie: The one about me joining the family.
Ben: Which one?
 • Rating: Unrated

Nicki: I love you, Bill.
Bill: I love you, too.
Nicki: How much?
Bill: I say it's astronomical, beyond all measure.
Nicki: I have $58,000 in debt
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 8: "Easter"

Frank [to Joey]: I'll have some beans there, Fumbles.
Wanda: I told you, old man, you lay off Joey or else.
Frank: Or else what?
Wanda: Or else I'll finish the job someone else started: I'll kill you!
 • Rating: Unrated

Frank [about Lois]: What are you being over-protective of her for? She's like one of Roman's Humvees, you know. The woman is a tank!
 • Rating: Unrated

Wanda [about Frank]: I wouldn't let him in your house if I were you. He makes Joey crazy, Bill hates him, and he doesn't pee in the toilet.
Nicki: Bill's not very good about lifting the seat either.
Wanda: No, Nicki. He pees in the sink
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 7: "Eviction"

Heather: You know, I really have some strong opinions about polygamy and I would love to sit down and talk to you about it one day.
(Sarah looks down, embarrassed.)
Barb: Wuhh... We should do that sometime
 • Rating: Unrated

Bill: I promise you, you will not have the baby in this motel.
Wanda: Oh, I could give birth in a potato patch, I'd survive. It's Joey I'm worried about
 • Rating: Unrated

Barb: Who's that?
Bill: Just Nicki.
Barb: Oh. What'd she want?
Bill: No, nothing... She's ovulating
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 6: "Roberta's Funeral"

Nicki [about Barb]: Do you think she's happy for me? About the baby?
Margie: Of course. She loves babies. Sometimes I think she wishes my boys were hers.
Nicki: Sometimes I think they wish the same thing
 • Rating: Unrated

Lois [about her and Bill's father]: We're gonna be legally married!
Bill: Congratulations.
Lois: No gifts, please!
Bill: Are you happy?
Lois: Well, you know me. I have a naturally cheerful countenance. But anyway, I just wanted to let you know. We won't be moving in together which means we'll probably get along a little better. But it won't matter any way. He won't be around much longer
 • Rating: Unrated

Nicki [for a baby name]: What do you think of the name Noel?
Bill: I think it says "Kick me and take my lunch money"
 • Rating: Unrated

Margene: Your father said we cannot call a plumber.
Ben: I know.
Margene: Do you think he's a cheapskate?
Ben: Umm, I believe the word is thrifty
 • Rating: Unrated

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