Mad Men

Mad Men Season 1 Quotes

Season 1 Episode 13: "The Wheel"

Joan Holloway: I said congratulations, didn't I? Although, sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Don Draper: 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 let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
 • Rating: 4.9 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 11: "Indian Summer"

Roger Sterling: Look, I want to tell you something because your 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 ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides.
Joan: Stop it.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 10: "Long Weekend"

Pete: The president is a product. Don't forget that.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Mr. Menken: This place reminds me of a czarist ministry. No matter what the decision, you don't feel it was yours.
 • Rating: Unrated

Don Draper: (to Pete) The day you sign a client is the day you start losing one.
[a few minutes later]
Roger Sterling: The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
Don Draper: You don't really believe that.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Roger Sterling: You know what my father used to say? "Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face."
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Roger Sterling: Remember, Don...when God closes a door, he opens a dress.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 9: "Shoot"

Roger: What else is there?
Don: I don't know. Life being lived? I'd like to stop talking about it and get back to it
 • Rating: Unrated

Joan: Peggy, this is isn't China. There's no money in virginity.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 8: "The Hobo Code"

Don Draper: I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Don Draper:(speaking to a client) Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus. You already know about Jesus, either he lives in your heart or he doesn't.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 4: "New Amsterdam"

Roger Sterling: (to Don) At some point, we've all parked in the wrong garage.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Don: Mourning is just extended self-pity.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Joan: Roger, if you had your way, I would be stranded in some paperweight with my legs stuck in the air.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Midge:(to Don on the phone) I want you to pull my hair and ravish me and leave me for dead
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Betty: I liked your girl Peggy. She's fresh.
Don: As the driven snow.
 • Rating: Unrated

Pete Campbell: I have ideas.
Don Draper: I'm sure you do. Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Roger Sterling: Say nothing. You are here because of Don Draper's largess.
Pete Campbell: Thank you. Thank you so much.
Roger Sterling: Now, I know that your generation went to college instead of serving, so I'll illuminate you. This man is your commanding officer. You live and die in his shadow. Understood?
Pete Campbell: (nods vigorously) I won't let you down, Don.
Roger Sterling: Jesus! Campbell...don't ever say that.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Roger Sterling: I bet there were people in the Bible walking around, complaining about "kids today."
Don Draper: Kids today, they have no one to look up to. Cuz they're looking up to us.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

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