Favourite/ most memorable quotes.

homah_7ft

I've already outlined the most memorable quote for me from The Wire, so now my favourite. It's hard to choose from the best dialogue I've come across in any tv show. I will go for D'Angelo Barksdale's depiction of the inventor's of the chicken McNugget fate.


"F**k right. It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down that basement and say, "Hey Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. We selling chicken faster than you can tear the bone out so I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass cheque for you." ****. Man the nig*er who invented them things, still working in the basement for regular wage thinking of some sh*t to make the fries taste better or some sh*t like that."

DeepBlue

Jaysus where does one start - just so many examples to choose from.

Rawls to McNulty after

Greggs got shot and McNulty is in shock and blaming himself

:

"Listen to me, McNulty. You took a lot of risks. You played a lot of wild cards. And, you made a lot of fucking people do a lot of things they didn't want to do. You, McNulty are a gaping asshole. I know it, and I'll be fucked if everybody in CID didn't know it. But, I'll be also fucked if I let you sit here and think you did a single fucking thing to get a fucking police shot. Believe it or not, not everything is about you. Get it into your head McNulty it's not your fault. And the motherfucker telling you this, he fucking hates your guts. So, you know, that if it was your fault, I'd be the first son of a bitch to tell you. Shit went bad, she took two for the company. That's the only lesson here."

Boadie having an epiphany:

"They want me to stand with them, right? But where the fuck they at when they supposed to stand with us? I mean, when shit goes bad, and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man."

So many more........

The swear filter sure is a pain when you try to quote from The Wire

homah_7ft

DeepBlue wrote: »

The swear filter sure is a pain when you try to quote from The Wire

True that.

tvnutz

Omar: "Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss."

Wallace: "This is me yo, right here".

Proposition Joe: I heard your end would be covering my fee.
Stringer Bell: Your fee?
Proposition Joe: Yeah, I'm like a marriage counselor. Tell the man he oughta bring the bitch some flowers every once in a while. Tell the bitch she gotta suck some cock every once in a while. That sort of $hit.
[Omar arrives]
Proposition Joe: Speaking of cocksuckers...
[to Omar]
Proposition Joe: I'm Proposition Joe. You F**k with me, I'll kill your whole family.

and many many more!

kryptyk500

Slim Charles: 'Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.'

kryptyk500

Lester Freamon - "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."

Slim Charles - "Game's the same, just got more fierce."

Latchy

Cop - ' What you need is a new bodygaurd ' .

Groucho marx ' what i need is a new body , the one i have aint worth gaurding ' .....

ixoy

One of my own guilty pleasures (solely for the delivery): "Sheeeeeeeeettttt"

jayteecork

Omar: "all in the game yo, all in the game"

I love that scene when Daniels is trying to get McNulty back in Major crimes and is in Rawls' office. Rawls says "and don't give me that fire in the belly ****" while gesturing his left hand in a masterbationary movement - twas solid gold.

TimFoil

Bodie to one of the hoppers after being stung with photocopied dollars:

"money be green fool"

Jim

Sig.

Sherifu

Dennis 'Cutty' Wise: The game done changed...
Slim Charles: Game's the same, just got more fierce.

Bubbles: Thin line between heaven and here.

Freamon: A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.

State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?
Omar: Day at a time I suppose?

Tagline.

fish fingers

i remember the one where they are raiding the hotel room . One of the cops was about to knock down the door. Bunk was all like "man wat you doin, they arent gonna flush the pros. down the toilet" something like that anyways.:)

giftgrub

Great scene with the Narcos in Season 1

Keema:...fighting the war on drugs, one brutality case at a time.
Carver: Girl, you can't even call this s**t a war.
Herc: Why not?
Carver:Wars end.

Double C

Somewhere in Season 3 when Lester is saying something about needing to get the wire up on the burners, McNulty responds in his best Daniels impression "Well see to it that you do, detective". He holds a serious face for a second anfd then starts laughing!

silvine

McNult to Lester in Season Five "Lester, we have to kill again".


and Jimmy and Bunk get locked in interrogation and have to be let out by another cop:

Cop to Bunk "Did he **** you?"

Bunk to McNulty "He tried. But he only ****s himself."

Double C

Bodie: "And a very good evening to you officer Colicchio"
Colicchio: "Fùck yourself with a forty shìtbreath!"

Ostrom

No so much a quote as a scene, brilliant acting - from Season 3 when Colvin calls to Daniels looking for intel on the drug lientenants in the western and McNulty walks in. Colvin hasnt seen him in a while but the scene is so well placed, they exchange a few in jokes then Colvin says:

"yeh....gotta keep em close but still, thats a good goddam police right here'


Also, the meeting between Prop Joe and the other dealers charied by stringer in season 3 has some excellent ones:

'gotta say, for a bunch of cold ass gangsta's y'all carried it like some republicans'
- Prop Joe


'Roberts rules say we gotta have minutes. these the minutes....'

'****a you takin notes on a criminal f***in' conspiracy??'

unionman

Freamon: Ain't none of you ever been in the military? Don't you know how to make a 30-inch quick tie?
[Nobody speaks]
Freamon: Draft dodging peace freaks, huh?

D'Angelo Barksdale: The King stay the King

Idu

Last episode of Season 3. All the hoppers have been rounded up at it shows them all sitting in the station with Bernard and his girlfriend in the middle. She's giving him lip as usual and he just turns to the guy next to him and says

"man, I can't wait to go to jail"

Classic

Hitman Actual

From the Gant trial in All Prologue, Season 2, after Levy calls Omar a parasite living off of the culture of drugs:

Omar: "Just like you man. I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase."

An obvious sort of a reply, but I thought it was brilliant more for the reaction of everyone in the courtroom as much as anything.

Edit to add, here's the whole piece:

LEVY: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off--
OMAR: Just like you, man.
LEVY: The culture of drugs-- Excuse me, what...?
OMAR: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?

Hitman Actual

DeepBlue wrote: »

Rawls to McNulty after

Greggs got shot and McNulty is in shock and blaming himself

:

"Listen to me, McNulty. You took a lot of risks. You played a lot of wild cards. And, you made a lot of fucking people do a lot of things they didn't want to do. You, McNulty are a gaping asshole. I know it, and I'll be fucked if everybody in CID didn't know it. But, I'll be also fucked if I let you sit here and think you did a single fucking thing to get a fucking police shot. Believe it or not, not everything is about you. Get it into your head McNulty it's not your fault. And the motherfucker telling you this, he fucking hates your guts. So, you know, that if it was your fault, I'd be the first son of a bitch to tell you. Shit went bad, she took two for the company. That's the only lesson here."

Agreed, that was excellent. I actually thought Rawls mightn't be such a pr**k after that little speech. The feeling didn't didn't really last though...

MikeHoncho

Lester: A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come

Bunk: Them Greeks sure have some weird-ass names.
McNulty: Hey, don't knock the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Bunk: Yeah, and ass-****ing, too.

Sinfonia

"The **** did I do?"

K4t

Sinfonia wrote: »

"The **** did I do?"

That's McNulty's trademark line haha!

Poot to Bodie: "World goin' one way, people another" in reference to global warming and people getting colder. Classic.

Chris to Mike after his first murder: "You can look 'em in the eye now, no matter who he is or what he done, you can look him in the eye now"

This is a metaphor for the sexual abuse Michael and Chris experienced as children. Brilliant moment and it leads into the Season 4 montage.

There are magnificent quotes in every single episode of the Wire, brilliant scenes in every episode. It's just the ultimate tv show.

RobY

Not sure what season or if I have this exactly right:

Lester Freamon walks away from Bunk and someone else. Bunk says "Bandy legged motherf*cker - I made him that way"

Classic!!!

K4t

RobY wrote: »

Not sure what season or if I have this exactly right:

Lester Freamon walks away from Bunk and someone else. Bunk says "Bandy legged motherf*cker - I made him that way"

Classic!!!

Lol That's season 4, just watched it actually. It was in the homicide department he said it I think. Bunk is one horny bastard!

ronnie3585

Omar Little: That wasn’t no attempt murder.

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: What was it, Mr. Little?

Omar Little: I shot the boy Mike-Mike in his hind parts, that all.
[Jury laughs]

Omar Little: Fixed it up so he couldn’t sit right.
[Judge chuckles]

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Why’d you shoot Mike-Mike in his, um, hind parts, Mr. Little?

Omar Little: Let’s say we had a disagreement.

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: A disagreement over?

Omar Little: Well, you see, Mike-Mike thought he should keep that cocaine he was slingin’ and the money he was makin’ from slingin’ it. I thought otherwise.

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Why should we believe your testimony then? Why believe anything you say?

Omar Little: That’s up to y’all, really.

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off the culture of drugs…

Omar Little: Just like you, man.

Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Excuse me? What?

Omar Little: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game though, right?

godtabh

"What the **** did I do?"

"Happy now bitch!"

ongarite

F*ck

F*ck

MotherF*cker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsF18GL8YYM

Double C

McNulty: You know why I respect you so much Bunk?
Bunk: Huh?
McNulty: Its not cos your good police, because...**** that right?
Bunk: Mmm **** that, yeah.
McNulty: It's because when I came time for you to **** me...you were very gentle.
Bunk: You damn right.
McNulty: See cos you could have hauled me out of the garage and bent me over the hood of a radio car...but no, you were very gentle.
Bunk I knew it was your first time, wanted to make that **** special.
McNulty: And it was man, it ****in was.


Brilliance

quad_red

Double C wrote: »

McNulty: You know why I respect you so much Bunk?
Bunk: Huh?
McNulty: Its not cos your good police, because...**** that right?
Bunk: Mmm **** that, yeah.
McNulty: It's because when I came time for you to **** me...you were very gentle.
Bunk: You damn right.
McNulty: See cos you could have hauled me out of the garage and bent me over the hood of a radio car...but no, you were very gentle.
Bunk I knew it was your first time, wanted to make that **** special.
McNulty: And it was man, it ****in was.


Brilliance

Was about to post it

That and 'f**kin stairmaster'.

2040

Security Guard: Look, I told you I ain't stepping to. I ain't disrespecting you, son.
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: What?
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: Man, I don't want it to be --
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: [losing temper] Man, stop --
[pulls himself together]
Security Guard: Stop saying that.
Marlo Stanfield: But it's the other way.



fantastic.

rosboy

Season 5, Episode 4.

The Co-Op is having a meeting and one of the members, Hungry Man, vents his anger at Cheese for making what he calls "incursions" into Baltimore County territory earmarked for him and his people.

"'Incursions'?" Cheese says mockingly. "Ain't you the articulate mother****er?"

I smile everytime I think of that quote:)

ongarite

ongarite wrote: »

F*ck

F*ck

MotherF*cker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsF18GL8YYM

The highlight of series 1, fantastic

K4t

McNulty on the 'Serial Killer' - "He's maturing" Laughed for hours!

Marlo on Omar's Leap of Faith! - "Some Spiderman **** right there"

uncle ernie

Sgt. Landsman: "For you I would suggest some pantsuits, perhaps muted in color, something to offset Detective Moreland's pinstripe lawyerly affectations and the brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon"

brash tweedy impertinence!:pac:

El Diablo89

Double C wrote: »

McNulty: You know why I respect you so much Bunk?
Bunk: Huh?
McNulty: Its not cos your good police, because...**** that right?
Bunk: Mmm **** that, yeah.
McNulty: It's because when I came time for you to **** me...you were very gentle.
Bunk: You damn right.
McNulty: See cos you could have hauled me out of the garage and bent me over the hood of a radio car...but no, you were very gentle.
Bunk I knew it was your first time, wanted to make that **** special.
McNulty: And it was man, it ****in was.


Brilliance

I'm reading Homicide a year on the killing streets and this exact scene is in the book word for word.

TarfHead

Omar & Brother Mouzone before their face-to-face with Stringer.

It was along the lines of ..

Omar: "for this one we go through the front door"

Brother Mouzone "that'll be a first for you ?"

giftgrub

The FBI serial killer profile was a cracker...

A white male in his late 20s to late 30s who is not a college graduate but feels superior to those with advanced education. Is likely employed in a bureaucratic entity, possibly civil service or quasi public service, from which he feels alienated....

....The suspect is described as having trouble with lasting relationships and is possibly a high functioning alcoholic, with alcohol being used as a trigger in the commission of the crimes...

Ostrom

Norman's impression of Clay Davis' Sheeeeeeet

The Bunk

the bunk in the bath when mcnulty tries to get him home " i got to burn them clothes to get rid of the p@ussy DNA" classic line

K4t

I think the greatest quote is from Season 2.

Frank Sobotka looking out over the docks near the end of the series: "We used to make things in this country". The second series is possibly the best season along with season four in my opinion.

Penn

can't believe this hasn't been mentioned:

FROG: Naw, see, that ain't the way it work, yo. It ain't. 'Cause like, I'm the one out here all day takin' the chance, right? I'm sayin', police roll up into this bitch, it ain't gonna be you that catch no charge. So, least-wise, the thing you need to do is lay all that good **** down on an even-split, yo. Come Friday, me and my niggas done sold all that **** off, you come past and get paid. That how I'm at with it.
NICK: Hey, Frog. Come here. No, seriously. Come here. First of all, and I don't know how to tell you this without hurting you deeply, first of all, you happen to be white.

Gotta love Nicks delivery

The Black Oil

This one:

Bull****, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the **** I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. ****, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory mother****ers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, mother****er, how far we done fell.

tferg20

"Shardene better be awake, too...cause I do believe Lester Freamon's in the mood for love''

Johnny Storm

"Bushmills?! - That's a Protestant whisky! :eek:" - McNutty.

Ostrom

Cant remember this exactly, Daniels asks Rawls to let McNulty back in:

"Jesus, Lieutenant, When I said anything, I meant I'd let you have a kiss....Feel my tits or somethin', y'know. But not this"

Woden

"There you go. Giving a fúck when it ain't your turn to give a fúck"

tony1kenobi

The Bunk: I'm just a humble guy with a big dick.

freshtodeath

Bubbles' trademark "obliged!"

When Omar is being prepped before testifying in court...

Attorney: "... you even suggested the manufacturer; 'Australia, or one of them "A" countries', is that correct?"

Omar: "Indeed

:D:D:D