The Wire quotes
257 total quotesSobotka: You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.
Spiros: [about Nick Sobotka] You don't have to worry about Nicko...
The Greek: You are fond of him Spiros. You should have had a son.
Spiros: But then I would have had a wife.
The Greek: You are fond of him Spiros. You should have had a son.
Spiros: But then I would have had a wife.
Spiros: He knows my name, but my name is not my name. And you... to them you're only "The Greek."
The Greek: And, of course, I'm not even Greek.
The Greek: And, of course, I'm not even Greek.
Squeak: You've got to be the stupidest motherfucker I've ever dated.
Bernard: [to crony] I can't wait to go to jail.
Season 4
Bernard: [to crony] I can't wait to go to jail.
Season 4
Stringer: [to Bodie] This here game is more than the rep you carry, the corner you hold. You gotta be fierce, I know that, but more than that, you gotta show some flex, give and take on both sides.
Stringer: Make this quick, I got a meet.
Fatface Rick: Oh, fuck your meet! You're harder to get at than my fat wife's cunt.
Fatface Rick: Oh, fuck your meet! You're harder to get at than my fat wife's cunt.
Stringer: That's good. That's like a forty degree day. Ain't nobody got nuttin to say about a forty degree day. Fifty? Bring a smile to your face. Sixty? Shit, niggas are damn near barbecuing that mothafucka. Go down to twenty? Niggas get they bitch on. Get they blood complainin... but forty? Nobody give a FUCK about forty. Nobody remember forty, and ya'll niggas is giving me way too many forty degree days. What the fuck?!
Stringer: What you doing?
Shamrock: Robert's Rules says we got to have minutes of the meeting. These the minutes.
Stringer: Nigga, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Shamrock: Robert's Rules says we got to have minutes of the meeting. These the minutes.
Stringer: Nigga, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Stringer: Yo', Rock.
Shamrock: Huh?
Stringer: Be subtle with it, man. You know what subtle means?
Shamrock: Laid back and shit.
Shamrock: Huh?
Stringer: Be subtle with it, man. You know what subtle means?
Shamrock: Laid back and shit.
Stringer: You know, Avon, you gotta think about what we got in this game for, man. Huh? Was it the rep? Was it so our names could ring out on some fucking ghetto streetcorner, man? Naw, man. There's games beyond the fucking game.
Stringer: You see these east-side motherfucker's over here? I want'chu to extend to these motherfucker's all the hospitality west Baltimore is famous for.
Bodie: Yeah, you want us to fuck 'em up.
Bodie: Yeah, you want us to fuck 'em up.
The Deacon: A good church man is always up in everybody's shit. It's how we do.
The Greek: The young man makes a point. You're right. These are volatile times. It is not unreasonable to carry insurance. Who can say what tomorrow will show us?