30 Greatest Mad Men Quotes

Please tell me you don't pity me

Roger Sterling

• "Your asses are gonna' ware out those chairs"
• "It's a mistake to be conspicuously happy"
• "Heavy is the head that wears the crown"
• "I know that cooler heads should prevail, but am I the only one who wants to see this?
• "I gotta' go learn a bunch of people's names before I fire them"
• "As a wise man once said, the only thing worse than not getting what you want is someone else getting it"
• "Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do"
• "I'll buy you a drink if you wipe the blood off your mouth"

Don Draper

• "Change is neither good nor bad, it simply is"
• "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation"
• "I'm glad this is an environment where you feel free to fail"
• "Lets take it a little slower, I don't want to wake up pregnant"
• "Kids today, they have no one to look up to. 'Cause they're looking up to us"
• "What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons"

Lane Pryce

• "You've always lived life from a bottomless pocket"
• "Very good. Happy Christmas"
• "Spare me the ballad of your discontent"
• "Well, gentlemen, I suppose you're all fired"
• "I am not your darling, and I don't want your kisses"

Pete Campbell

• "Please tell me you don't pity me"
• "So you would rather blow yourself up than make me head of accounts?"
• "Of course I love you, I'm giving up my life to be with you"
• "Why does It have to be like this? Why can't I get anything good all once?"

Duck Phillips

• "You should strike while the iron's hot"
• "Come on, creative. Be creative"

Connie Hilton

• "By golly, you're an indecently lucky man"

Bertram Cooper

• "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She's an astronaut"

Joan Holloway

• "It's a very brave person who does something anonymously"
• "This is why I don't allow crying in the break room, It erodes morale. There's a place to do that, like your apartment"
• "Hello, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce"