Sex and the City Quotes

Charlotte York: Miranda has a son!

Samantha: Just what the world needs. Another man.

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Miranda Hobbes: "Mr. Broadway has to tinkle"? That must be the gayest sentence ever uttered.

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Carrie Bradshaw: He doesn't need her money, he was one of the original investors in "A Chorus Line."

Miranda Hobbes: Just when I thought it couldn't get any gayer than "Mr. Broadway has to tinkle."

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Trey: You're learning Chinese?

Charlotte: Well, just in case, I want to be able to speak to the baby.

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Charlotte: [watching the dancers at the Highland Fling] For something called a "fling" it looks like a lot of work.

Bunny MacDougal: That's what I used to tell Trey about you.

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Charlotte: If you had a patient who had a very, very slim chance of living, would that be good news? Would you tell the family, "Buck up, he's got a shot in hell?"

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Carrie: [voice over] Did I really love Big, or was I addicted to the pain, the exquisite pain, of wanting someone so unattainable.

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Anthony Marantino: I've never what? Lost the love of my life? Wrong! Paulo. Brazilian. Broke my heart. I've never gotten over him. An ass like two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.

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Samantha Jones: I happen to love the way I look.

Miranda Hobbes: You should. You paid enough for it.

Samantha Jones: Hey! I resent that! I do not believe in plastic surgery. Well, not yet.

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Carrie Bradshaw: [voice over narration] I believe there is a curse put on the head of anybody who tries to fix up their friends.

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Charlotte: The thing is... there are some things people don't admit because they just don't like the way it sounds. Like, 'I'm getting divorced.'

Carrie: I'm lonely. I am. The loneliness is palpable.

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Carrie Bradshaw: [regarding Mr. Big] The thing is, I was dying to sleep with him, but isn't delayed gratification the definition of maturity?

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Miranda Hobbes: [the man Miranda had just met at the gym asked her out] No, it's too quick. I think maybe that kick in his head scrambled his brains.

Carrie Bradshaw: No, too quick is sleeping with him on the first date. That's too quick.

Miranda Hobbes: You both got excited, and you went for it. Stop blaming yourself.

Carrie Bradshaw: No, I don't blame myself. I blame the dress. The dress!

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Elizabeth: He never did call, of course. Bastard! I don't understand.

Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] She told me one day over coffee.

Elizabeth: I don't understand. In England, looking at houses together, would have meant something.

Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] Then I realized, no one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan. Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember. Instead, we have breakfast at seven a.m., and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op!

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Peter Mason: There's not one woman in New York who hasn't turned down ten wonderful guys because they were too short, or too fat, or too poor.

Miranda Hobbes: I have been out with some of those guys. The short, fat, poor ones. It makes absolutely no difference. They are just as self-centered and unappreciative as the good-looking ones.

Peter Mason: Why don't these women just marry a fat guy? Why don't they just marry a big fat tub of lard?

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Carrie Bradshaw: So what are you doing later?

Kurt Harrington: I thought you weren't talking to me for the rest of your life?

Carrie Bradshaw: Who said anything about talking?

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Carrie: The only thing I've ever successfully made in the kitchen is a mess. And several little fires.

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Carrie: Miranda was a huge fan of the Yankees. I was a huge fan of being anywhere you could smoke and drink at two in the afternoon without judgment.

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James: How are the most beautiful women on Manhattan?

Miranda: If we see them, we'll ask.

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Miranda: Soul mates only exist in the Hallmark aisle of Duane Reade Drugs.

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Miranda: I used to masturbate to a busboy who was rude to me once. What do you think that means? All right. The cheese stands alone.

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Charlotte: [about an old friend taking the name she made up when she was 11] She stole my baby name!

Samantha: You bitch! Let's go home.

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[on trapeze-flying]

Charlotte York: I could never! I have the most terrible fear of heights.

Carrie Bradshaw: Well, I do not. You've seen my shoes.

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Carrie: I better find Big.

Miranda: I'm coming with you.

Carrie: Can you leave the guest book unattended?

Miranda: It's a bullshit job Carrie, people know what to do with the guest book!

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Charlotte York: [voice over narration] While Miranda misjudged the intensity of Skipper's feelings, Michael left Charlotte no doubt about his.

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Miranda Hobbes: The only person who should have to pay for your last relationship is the person in your next relationship.

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Carrie: Ooh, hear that? It's midnight, the official end to what will now be known as the day I got arrested for smokin' a doobie.
[giggling uncontrollably]

Carrie: I said "doobie".

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Charlotte: Where are going to get any?

Samantha Jones: Well, I'd call my dealer, but he's at the Cape.

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[first lines]

Carrie: [narrating voice over] The most powerful woman in New York is not Tina Brown, or Diane Sawyer, or even Rosie O'Donnell. It's the hostess at Balzac, which had overnight become the only restaurant that mattered. And we were there to celebrate the moment.

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Samantha: Women have the right to use every means at their disposal to achieve power.

Miranda Hobbes: Short of sleeping their way to the top

Samantha: Not if that's what it takes to compete.

Charlotte York: But that's exploitation!

Samantha: Of men, - which is perfectly legal.

Carrie: [voice over narration] Saturday night, in an effort to save money, and maybe even pick up a few extra bucks, I invited the girls over for poker.

Charlotte York: I'll buy two.

Carrie: I'm in for three. So, you advocate a double standard. Women can use their sexuality to get ahead whenever possible, but men should not be allowed to take advantage of it?

Samantha: No, I'm just saying that men and women are equal-opportunity exploiters.

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