What you gonna do in that rig? Flounce around the engine room? Be like a sheep walkin' on its hind legs.

Mal

The key seems to be handing Jayne a heavy stick and then standing back.

Inara

Alliance officer: Seems odd that you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Mal: Maybe on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?

Wash

Zoe: We're very private people.
Wash: The legs, oh yeah, definitely have to say it was her legs. You can put that down. Her legs, and right where legs meet her back. Actually, that whole area. That and above it.

Alliance Officer: It's only in the last year that you've been shipping out with the crew of the Serenity ?
Inara: It's just Serenity.

Captain, did you hear what that purple-belly called Serenity?

Kaylee

How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different from those who did the slaughter.

Book

Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be.

Mal

Reavers might take issue with that philosophy, if they had a philosophy. If they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides

Mal

Book: Whatever horror he witnessed, whatever acts of barbarism, it was done by men.
Jayne: Reavers ain't men.
Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization, perhaps, but men.

Simon: Oh yes, he's a real beast. It's a wonder you're still alive.
Jayne: He looked bigger when I couldn't see him

Firefly Quotes

Mal: You're only going to scare him.
Jayne: Pain is scary.

Mal: I gotta know how close the Alliance is, exactly how much you told them before Wash scrambled your call. So I've given Jayne here the job of finding out.
Jayne: He was non-specific as to how.