Quotes
Omar: I'll do what I can to help y'all. But, the game's out there, and it's play or get played. That simple.
Share thisDet. Ellis Carver: See, that's why we can't win.
Det. Thomas Hauk: Why not?
Det. Ellis Carver: They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions.
Share thisPreston 'Bodie' Broadus: You supposed to be good cop, dumb motherfucker!
Share thisDet. William Moreland: You seem awfully happy today.
Det. Ray Cole: I got laid last night.
Det. William Moreland: Oh yeah? Your asshole still hurt?
Share thisTroy Wiggins: Shakima's just pissed, 'cause I had her when she was still good.
Shakima Greggs: Yeah, well, you the ugly-ass motherfucker that turned me around.
Share thisProposition 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 shit.
[Omar arrives]
Proposition Joe: Speaking of cocksuckers...
[to Omar]
Proposition Joe: I'm Proposition Joe. You fuck with me, I'll kill your whole family.
Share thisFreamon: Ain't none of you ever been in the military? Don't you know how you learn a thirty-inch quick time?
[Nobody speaks]
Freamon: Draft dodging peace freaks, huh?
Share thisMoreland: I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick.
Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.
Moreland: Okay then. I ain't that humble.
Share thisDA Pearlman: What's the worst thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman.
Share thisDennis 'Cutty' Wise: The game done changed...
Slim Charles: Game's the same, just got more fierce.
Share thisAvon Barksdale: I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose...
Share thisDet. William Moreland: Them Greeks sure have some weird-ass names.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Hey, don't knock the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Det. William Moreland: Yeah, and ass-fucking, too.
Share thisBrother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.
Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'.
Share thisOmar: Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss.
Share thisDet. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: All those mopes in bracelets and not one of them named Osama.
Share thisBubbles: Thin line between heaven and here.
Share thisSgt. Jay 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. Rawls is watching on this one, let's at least pretend like we got a fucking clue.
Freamon: Tweedy impertinence? I like that.
Share thisAvon Barksdale: Fucked up, man. Ay... y'all ask me y'all ugly ass niggas shouldn't be in here fuckin' around with all these guns and shit...
Share thisBrother Mouzone: You're the perfect bait. They will view you as conflicted, your homophobia is so visceral.
Lamar: See that. I haven't even walked in the place yet and you're already calling me a cocksucker.
Share thisFreamon: A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.
Share thisDet. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: [during interrogation] All right, we'll call you Boris...
Sergei 'Serge' Malatov: [sighs] Boris... why always Boris?
Share thisDet. William Moreland: [repeated line to McNulty] Happy now, bitch?
Share thisDet. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: [Repeated line] What the fuck did I do?
Share thisLt. Dennis Mello: [repeated Line at End of Role Call] Don't Get Captured!
Share thisShakima Greggs: You rogue motherfuckers kill me. Fighting the war on drugs, one brutality case at a time.
Det. Ellis Carver: You can't even call this shit a war.
Det. Thomas Hauk: Why not?
Det. Ellis Carver: Wars end.
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