50 TV Quotes That Will Make You Miss Your Favorite Shows

Iconic TV shows

“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” —Tony Soprano in The Sopranos

“No need to seize the last word, Lord Baelish. I’ll assume it was something clever.” —Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones

“We have got to go back, Kate.” —Jack Shephard in Lost

“What you call ‘love’ was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.” —Don Draper in Mad Men

“It’s human nature to come together.” —Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead

“Family you can see anytime. But a one-night stand only happens one night.” —Blanche Devereaux in The Golden Girls

“I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.” —Josh Lyman in The West Wing

“I’m not gonna ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it’s what you just said.” —Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files

“Well, I’m not exactly quaking in my stylish, yet affordable, boots.” —Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“Ironically, in astronomy the word ‘revolution’ means a celestial object that comes full circle. Which if you think about it, is pretty funny considering here on earth it means change.” —Mike Milligan in Fargo

“He wanted to stop and chat with me. And I don’t know him well enough for a stop and chat.” —Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm

Classic TV shows

“Ever since we said ‘I do,’ there are so many things we don’t.” —Lucy Ricardo in I Love Lucy

“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch.” —Samantha Stephens in Bewitched

“Do I remember Adrian Monk? That’s like asking the Titanic if it remembers the iceberg.” —Ralph “Father” Roberts in Monk

“I learned one thing about eating jigsaw puzzles … an hour later, you’re hungry again.” —ALF in ALF

“I don’t want to be happy; I want to be with you.” —Stanley Roper in Three’s Company

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war, and rule No. 1 is young men die. And rule No. 2 is doctors can’t change rule No. 1.” —Henry Blake in MASH

“I don’t have anything against education—as long as it doesn’t interfere with your thinking.” —Ben Cartwright in Bonanza

“Oh, no, no. I cannot read minds, Master. Oh, but I have a friend, Nostradamus, who does a marvelous job of…” —Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie

“Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.” —Eunice “Lovey” Wentworth Howell in Gilligan’s Island

“You’ve got to know the rules before you can break ’em. Otherwise, it’s no fun.” —Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice

Funny TV shows

“Our first assignment is a documentary. They’re like real movies but with ugly people.” —Abed Nadir in Community

“Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it!” —Monica Geller in Friends

“I just said ‘bet your buns’ to a nun. Is that a sin?” —Laverne DeFazio in Laverne & Shirley

“Once again I humiliate myself by assuming I’m a member of this family.” —Arthur Spooner in The King of Queens

“I can’t talk, there’s too much fruit in the house!” —Marie Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond

“Cut. It. Out.” —Joey Gladstone in Full House

“Really? No way! Really? No way! Really? No way! Really? No way!” —Clarissa Darling in Clarissa Explains It All

“Either this kid has a lightbulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea.” —Dr. Perry Cox in Scrubs

“God knows I couldn’t love them more, but even the Kennedys didn’t get together as much as this family.” —Jay Pritchett in Modern Family

“I totaled your Mastercard!” —Hilary in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

“You can’t eat this soup standing up. Your knees buckle.” —Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld

Romantic TV shows

“I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.” —Olivia Pope in Scandal

“All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about and when I’m with her I feel happy to be alive, like I can do anything, even talk to you like this. So that’s what I think is love—when I’m better because she’s here.” —Cory Matthews in Boy Meets World

“So, pick me. Choose me. Love me.” —Meredith Grey in Grey’s Anatomy

“Hey, I have a huge dilemma that I need your opinion on. Am I more beautiful today than I was yesterday?” —Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls

“I revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty.” —Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City

“Maybe we both felt we’d already come too far too fast. Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn’t have to be so much a straight line as a series of advances and retreats.” —Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years

“Phoebe, I love you and I don’t know what’s going on, but maybe I could help. Would you like me to kill someone for you?” —Cole Turner in Charmed

“Does Elena enjoy having both of you worship at her altar?” —Katherine Pierce in The Vampire Diaries

Best TV lines of all time

“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.” —Coach Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights

“You come at the king, you best not miss.” —Omar Little in The Wire

“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” —Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch

“Ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party because a Liz Lemon party is mandatory.”—Liz Lemon in 30 Rock

“I am not in danger, I am the danger.” —Walter White in Breaking Bad

“Good morning, Angels.” —Charles “Charlie” Townsend in Charlie’s Angels

“Ayyyy!” —Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli in Happy Days

“You can’t be half a gangster.” —Jimmy Darmody in Boardwalk Empire

“Women. You can’t live with ’em. Pass the Beer Nuts.” —Norm Peterson in Cheers

“You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day, you can always change the channel.” —Reverend Jim Ignatowski in Taxi

Additional reporting by Lindsay Tigar.

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