Sex and the City Quotes

Carrie : Are you sure you can leave the Guest Book unattended?
Miranda : Its a bullshit job, Carrie. People know what to do with the guestbook.

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Carrie : I'm at Big's.
Miranda : You're at Big's? You and I are having dinner tonight!
Carrie : Well, he got this veal...
Miranda : You blew me off for a piece of politically incorrect meat??

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Carrie : You've never seen an uncircumsized one?
Charlotte : I'm from Connecticut!

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Miranda : If 85% [of men] aren't circumsized, that means I've only slept with 15% of the population, tops.
Carrie : Wow, you're practically a virgin!

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Carrie : Now I've laid down a gauntlet. He either has to say "I love you" back or I guess I'm going to have to break up with him.
Charlotte : Well, how long are you going to give him?
Carrie : Well, I didn't put an expiration date on the sentiment, but I figure it's got the shelf life of a dairy product. It's going to start to curdle in about a week.

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Steve : What's wrong with corduroy?
Miranda : I don't have enough time to tell you what's wrong with corduroy.

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Samantha : I never leave underwear at a guy's place because I never see it again.
Charlotte : What happens to it?
Samantha : Nothing; I just never go back.
Carrie : Doesn't that get a little expensive, disposing of lingerie every time you sleep with a guy?
Samantha : That's why I stopped wearing underwear on dates.
Miranda : And that's why I'm never borrowing a dress from you again.

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Charlotte : I am so confused. Is he gay or is he straight?
Carrie : Well, it's not that simple anymore. The real question is, is he a straight gay man or is he a gay straight man?
Carrie[voiceover] : The gay straight man was a new strain of heterosexual male spawned in Manhattan as the result of overexposure to fashion, exotic cuisine, musical theatre and antique furniture.

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Charlotte[about a waiter dressed in a bondage outfit] : How does he wait on tables dressed like that? It's humiliating.
Carrie : Well, the summer I worked at Howard Johnson's I had to wear an orange hat.

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Samantha[to Charlotte] : I wonder what your fetish is.
Stanford : Charlotte has a thing for Crabtree & Evelyn potpourri.

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Miranda : Steve is completely predictable but that's one of the things I love about him. He's just so comfortable and safe.
Carrie : Are you dating a man or a minivan?
Samantha : Your relationship is my greatest fear.

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Carrie : After we made love I knew it was over. Did I ever really love Big or was I addicted to the pain? The exquisite pain of wanting someone so unattainable?
Big : Come to bed.
Carrie : I wanted to go to him, but I felt like I was tied to the chair. Some part of me was holding me back, knew I'd reached my limit. And just like that, I united myself from Mr. Big, I was free, but there was nothing exquisite about it.

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Samantha : The only place you can control a man is in bed. If we perpetually gave men blow jobs we could run the world!
Carrie : And at least our hands would be free to greet dignitaries and stuff.

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Carrie: [about therapists] First they want you to come there two times a week, then three times a week, and eventually you're starting every sentence with 'my therapist says...'
Miranda: My therapist says that's a very common fear.

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Samantha : Carrie, you can't date your fuck buddy.
Carrie : Say it a little louder, I don't think the old lady in the last row heard you.
Samantha : You're going to take the only person in your life that's there purely for sex, no strings attached, and turn him into a human being? Why?

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Miranda : You double-booked?
Carrie : How do you conceive pulling this one off?
Charlotte : Early dinner with bachelor number one, late supper with bachelor number two.
Samantha : My god, you're turning into a man!
Carrie[voiceover] : Apparently Charlotte had done more than just break a pattern. She had actually changed genders.
Charlotte : I just don't know how I'm going to eat two dinners in a row.
Carrie[voiceover] : And just like that, she was a woman again.

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Duncan : I'm just one of those weird male aberrations who prefers to be married. I like stability, I like routine. I like knowing there's people waiting for me at home. I guess that makes me sound pretty dull.
Miranda : Are you kidding? You're the heterosexual holy grail.

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Samantha : I fucked a guy once because his family had a pool. He was pretty much of a nerd, but... I'd go over there and get all cocoa-buttered up. His mom loved me. She was always serving me Kool Aid and chips.
Carrie : Kool Aid?
Samantha : Yeah! Kool Aid! I was thirteen. And honey—you should've seen my tan!

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Miranda : I'm trying to change my bed karma. I figure if I can make my bed a place I really want to be, others will feel the same.
Carrie : Aah, the Field of Dreams.
Miranda : Exactly. If you build it, he will come.

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Carrie[about her date who wouldn't kiss her] : I couldn't figure it out. I knew he wanted me because during my lean-in-and-kiss-me-good-night move, I accidentally on purpose felt his pop-up-and-say-hello.

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Charlotte : It's a really cute three bedroom cottage and they're giving us a fantastic deal for the month of August.
Carrie : Yeah, of course it's a good deal. It's haunted with cheating boyfriends and sexual rejection.
Samantha : We could always burn sage.

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Carrie : And then I realized something, twenty-something girls are just fabulous, until you see one with the man who broke your heart.

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Carrie : There is no way that the love that I had with Big is the same thing that he has with Natasha.
Miranda : "Natasha"? When did you stop calling her "the idiot stick figure with no soul"?

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Carrie : Then I had a thought: maybe I didn't break Big. Maybe the problem was he couldn't break me. Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.

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Miranda : What is it about fireman, even when they aren't that cute, they're cute... ya know?!
Samantha : Its that whole hero complex
Carrie : And then there's the weight restriction
Charlotte : Its because women just really want to be rescued.

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Charlotte[drunk] : I'm nice. I'm pretty, and smart! I'm a catch!

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Carrie : I figured we made a good match. I was adept at fashion; he was adept at politics. And really, what's the difference? They're both about recycling shop-worn ideas and making them seem fresh and inspiring.

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Stanford : I can only stay a few minutes. I got tickets to the Vagina Monologues.
Carrie : Why?
Stanford : Just because I don't eat at the restaurant doesn't mean I can't hear the specials.

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Carrie : There are very few things this New Yorker loves as much as Sunday brunch. You can sleep until noon and still get eggs anywhere in the city, alcohol is often included with the meal, and Sunday is the one day a week you get the single woman's sports pages: the New York Times wedding section.

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Carrie : I've talked to her twice. Once I was in a cowboy hat and once I was in my bra. I'm like frickin' Annie Get Your Clothes On.

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