Scandal

Scandal Season 1 Quotes (Page 3)

Season 1 Episode 3: "Hell Hath No Fury"

First lady: You needed one chance to sleep in.
President: I'm the leader of the free world. I do not sleep in.
First Lady: Why aren't you sleeping?
President: Mel...
First Lady: I just want you to have what you need. You know that.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Olivia: In a case like this, perception is more important than evidence. The truth doesn't matter. He looks guilty, he is guilty.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Quinn: So, we lost? I mean, what happens when we lose? We're just...done?
Olivia: We're never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal because what ever happens, there's always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door and I do not give up.
Abby: It's not personal.
Harrison: She really doesn't like the word "lose."
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Lab tech: You're not a cop.
Harrison: Not even close.
Lab tech: Usually all we get down here are cops, sometimes lawyers, but you're not a lawyer either.
Harrison: I'm definitely not a cop, some days I'm a lawyer, but today, I'm just a single man looking for evidence.
Lab tech: Are you flirting with me?
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Quinn: [on the phone with Gideon] Hey, Gideon? Hi. It's Quinn Perkins, from Olivia Pope and Associates. I was wondering if you wanted to grab a drink with me tonight if you're not busy. If you are, it's completely and totally fine. we could do it another time or tomorrow or next week or never at all ever.
Huck: [eavesdropping] You're weird.
Quinn: I'm not weird.
Huck: Weird is good.
Quinn: Thank you.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Quinn: Hey, what are you doing here?
Huck: Setting you up...Put your hair down, and take that jacket off. Flirt just enough, but not too much, and do not let him see you home.
Quinn: I can handle myself.
Huck: I heard you on the phone. You need to be set up.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

President: Why did you invite her to the State dinner?
First Lady: Olivia?
President: Why would you do that?
First Lady: Because you needed to see her. I trust that tonight, you'll sleep like a baby.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 2: "Dirty Little Secrets"

President Grant: You think they'll get past this?
Olivia: I don't know how they can.
President Grant: I think that those two people want to be together. I think that love, at the end of the day, is stronger than some mistakes somebody made. Something they did that they regret. I think that love allows for forgiveness. Don't you?
 • Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

Olivia: Everybody has secrets, Abby, most of them aren't pretty. In our line of work, I don't judge. Neither should you.
 • Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Abby: You'd never pay for sex would you? Have you?
Harrison: Everyone pays for sex, at least until they're in a relationship. That's how it works. I buy you dinner, I buy you drinks, it's not out of the goodness of my heart.
Abby: Why do men do it?
Harrison: Honestly? To never have to have a conversation like the one we're having right now.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Huck: You look like you're going to throw up. Don't throw up in my office.
Quinn: I was doing a thing, for Olivia, and I screwed it up.
Huck: You screw up, you fix it. You're a fixer. That's the job.
Quinn: I lost a person. I need you to help me track them, or hunt them, or whatever it is you do to find someone right this instant.
Huck: You try their house? Try their house.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Sharon: I didn't stay out of trouble for 30 years by kissing and telling, Stevie. Nobody knows that better than you.
Stephen: Your clients are all grown men. I'm a grown man. I made a choice. To do something illegal. And sometimes we have to live with the choices we make.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Olivia: It's a dirty little secret. And dirty little secrets always come out.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Season 1 Episode 1: "Sweet Baby"

Stephen: What if I marry her, and I cheat? Or she gets bored with me? Or she doesn't love me enough? I'm not a good guy. Livie, what if she leaves me?
Olivia: I've gotta trust my gut and my gut is what?
Stephen: Never wrong.
Olivia: My gut tells me she's in this. She's in this with you. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but you have to try. Because if you try, if you leap, and you try, and it doesn't work, it's not on you.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Huck [to Quinn]: Olivia Pope fixes things. That's who she is. You need fixing. I don't need to know your story. We all have a story. Everyone in this office needs fixing. You're a stray dog and Olivia took you in. Don't question it.
 • Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Huck [to Quinn]: You're here because you worship her. You want to be her. You think if you're near her, if you stand in her light, you'll finally do stuff that matters. Because you need to believe that there's something greater than a 9 to 5 crap job. That there's a higher purpose. That your life has meaning because the world feels big and you feel lost. Am I right?
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Olivia: You love her, she loves you. Normal people get married.
Stephen: You won't even date.
Olivia: I'm not normal.
 • Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

Olivia: He's not wooing me, we're friends.
Stephen: You and I are friends. He's the leader of the free world. Your life makes me feel unsuccessful.
 • Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

Quinn: We've been here all night. Don't you people ever sleep? Don't any of you have husbands? wives? kids? lives?
Harrison: No.
Quinn: Oh.
Harrison: Gladiator. In a suit.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Abby: Hey Wally, body still here or did the morgue take it already?
Wally: Go home. I'm not telling you anything.
Abby: You don't have to. I'll just take a quick look at the crime scene.
Wally: Not on my watch.
Abby: How's your wife, Wally? She's, what, six months pregnant? Does she know about the stripper?
Wally: You're a real b****, you know that?
Abby: [smiling] I do know that, Wally.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

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