Sex and the City Quotes

Carrie : Modelizers are obsessed not with women but with models, who in most cities are safely confined to billboards and magazines, but in Manhattan actually run wild on the streets, turning the city into a virtual model country safari where men can pet the creatures in their natural habitat.

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Charlotte : I just know no matter how good I feel about myself, if I see Christy Turlington, I just want to give up!
Miranda : Well, I just want to tie her down and force-feed her lard, but that's the difference between you and me.

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Big : After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.

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Carrie : Charlotte treated marriage like a sorority she was desperately hoping to pledge.

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Carrie : Everywhere I looked, people were standing in two's. It was like Noah's upper west side rent-controlled ark.

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Carrie: Men in their forties are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle: tricky, complicated, and you're never really sure you got the right answer.

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Samantha: All I'm saying, that this is—this is a physical expression that the body was, well, it was designed to experience. And P.S., it's fabulous.
Charlotte: What are you talking about?! I went to Smith!
Samantha: Look, I'm just saying... the right guy, and the right lubricant...
[The girls start laughing when the car hits a hole]
Charlotte: What was that?!
All: A preview?!

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Carrie : We had such a fantastic connection. Then he leaves me money. I don't understand. What exactly about me screams "whore"?
Miranda : Besides the thousand dollars on the end table?

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Samantha : Money is power. Sex is power. Therefore, getting money for sex is simply an exchange of power.
Miranda : Don't listen to the dimestore Camille Paglia.

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Carrie : I will not be the first one to speak. And if he never calls me again, I'll always think of him fondly. As an asshole.

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Carrie : The truth is, I was dying to sleep with him. But isn't delayed gratification the definition of maturity?

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Carrie : I can't be hemmed in by rules. I go with my emotions.

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Carrie: Are we dating? I thought we were just sleeping together.

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Random woman : Monogamy is fabulous. It gives you a deep and profound connection with another human being, and you don't have to shave your legs as much.

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Carrie: I've done the merry go round, I've been through the revolving door, and I feel like I've met somebody I can stand still with for a minute and... don't you wanna stand still with me?
Big: You dragged me out to a park at three in the morning to ask me if I wanna stand still with you?
Carrie: ...Yes.

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Charlotte : So, which church does his mother go to?
Carrie : Park Avenue Presbyterian.
Charlotte : Good church! It's one of the best on the east side!
Carrie : What, are you rating churches? Is there a Zagat guide for that?
Miranda : Four stars. Great bread; disappointing wine selection.

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Carrie : The idea that Samantha could possibly get married before her shook Charlotte's beliefs to the core.

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Charlotte : It takes half the total time you went out with someone to get over them.
Carrie : I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

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Miranda : How did it happen that four such smart women have nothing to talk about but boyfriends? It's like seventh grade with bank accounts.

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Susan Sharon : It's 100% Italian cashmere and light as a feather.
Carrie : God, I love it! It's a cashmere-acle!

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Samantha : That can be a turn-on.
Miranda : Sure, but now he wants me to reciprocate and I can't. I never could.
Carrie : Why not?
Miranda : Because sex is not a time to chat. In fact, it's one of the few instances in my overly articulated, exceedingly verbal life where it is perfectly appropriate -- if not preferable -- to shut up. And now suddenly I have to worry about being stumped for conversation? -- no thank you.
Charlotte : Just keep talking about his big cock.
Samantha : Correction -- his big, beautiful cock.
Carrie : We're using the C-word now?
Miranda : I can't use adjectives

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Miranda : I'm sorry, if a man is over thirty and single, there's something wrong with him. It's Darwinian. They're being weeded out or propagating the species.
Carrie : Okay, well, what about us?
Miranda : We're just choosy.

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Miranda[looks at watch]: I have to go feed my cat.
Carrie[voiceover]: Miranda had invoked our code phrase, honed over years of bad parties, awful dates and phone calls that wouldn't end. Unfortunately, I wasn't ready to accept defeat. [out loud] I thought you already fed your cat.
Miranda : I have to feed it again.
Manhattan Guy : Cat people are freaks.

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Carrie : When did being alone become the modern-day equivalent of being a leper? Will Manhattan restaurants soon be divided up into sections -- smoking / non-smoking, single / non-single?

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Samantha : If I had a son, I'd teach him all about sex
Carrie : If you had a son, we'd call Social Services!

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Charlotte : Everyone needs a man. That's why I rent. If you own and he still rents, then the power structure is all off. It's emasculating. Men don't want a woman who's too self-sufficient.
Samantha : I'm sorry, did someone just order a Victorian straight up?

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Big : I never really thought about it.
Carrie : Oh come on. Everybody wonders what happens after you die.
Big : I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in the garage.

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Samantha : Nobody told me it was BYO man!
Carrie : Well, what did you expect? It's a lesbian art show.
Samantha : I know! But don't straight guys usually follow them around to see what they're going to do?

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Carrie : Well, I think maybe there's a cheating curve. That someone's definition of what constitutes cheating is in direct proportion to how much they themselves want to cheat.
Miranda : That's moral relativism!
Carrie : I prefer to think of it as quantum cheating.

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Charlotte : I just don't understand. How could you forget someone you slept with?
Carrie : Toto, I don't think we're in single digits anymore.

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