Patti: I'm sorry, Eli, but you cannot tell the people you work with that your life-threatening medical condition is back on an interoffice memo.
Eli: You're right. An e-mail would be faster.

Patti: Are we suing Duke Ellington, Eli?
Eli: Probably not. He's dead.

Eli: Patti, you know that box you've been keeping for me with all the faxes and letters from potential clients?
Patti: You mean the wackadoo file?
Eli: I mean the box with all the fascinating complex legal dilemmas that could one day end up in the Supreme Court.
Patti: Well what I have is a box full of cases from the nutballs that saw you on the news--the wackadoo file?
Eli: Could I just have it?

Eli: You're the best, Patti.
Patti: I assume that'll be reflected in my Christmas bonus?

Patti: Can you believe how easily people are bought?
Eli: The exodus has begun.
Patti: Only the morally bankrupt and weak-minded. No one liked your wife's banana bread. We only ate it to be polite!

Keith: But I think it's best if we go with someone outside the office with this. So, uh, I'll give my old colleague Danny Meyer a call.
Patti: And this Danny character--where does he live?
Keith: I don't know. What's it matter?
Patti: I need to know I can track him down and kick him in the cojones if he messes this up.
Keith: And that's why I'm not the guy to help you with this.

Patti: Eli, you draft your will yet?
Eli: I left you all my George Michael CDs. I figured that was appropriate.

Eli: Patti, do you notice something strange about Maggie?
Patti: I don't notice anything other than strange about that girl.

Eli: It's a welcome-back gift from your personal week. How was it?
Patti: Personal.

Patti: Objection! Condescending.
Eli: It was not!
Patti: I have been a legal secretary ever since you were an itch in your daddy's pants. I know an objectionable question when I hear one.

Eli: Is this about Solinsky?
Patti: It's about your representing that scum-sucking lizard.
Eli: Well, if it bothers you so much, why didn't you say something?
Patti: Like what? That you're lower than Dick Cheney's bunion to be his lawyer?

Patti: Can I be honest with you?
Taylor: This is you holding back?

Eli Stone Quotes

Lenore: So, his father and I went outside to find Eli naked covered in feathers and chocolate syrup.
Eli: Thanks, Mom. [to Nathan] And thank you, too.
Nathan: Come on, I was ten. Just be glad I couldn't find tar.

Are you breaking up with me? 'Cause I-I was just diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, and that would be really bad timing on your part.

Eli Stone