The Wire

The gods are f***ing you, you find a way to f*** them back. It’s Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you.

Character: Ervin H. Burrell

Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief. As long as you make room for other things, too.

Character: Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins

Tomorrow ain’t promised to no one.

Character: Marlo Stanfield

The bigger the lie, the more they believe.

Character: William 'Bunk' Moreland

A wise man does not burn his bridges until he first knows he can part the waters.

Character: Norman Wilson

Baker, let me tell you a little secret. A patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America. We can lock a guy up on a humble, lock him up for real, or we can say, f*** it, pull under the expressway and drink ourselves to death, and our side partners will cover it. So no one, and I mean no one, tells us how to waste our shift.

Character: James 'Jimmy' McNulty

A man learns best when he get burned.

Character: Proposition Joe

Money ain’t got no owners, only spenders.

Character: Omar Little

Better to be lucky than to be good.

Character: William 'Bunk' Moreland

Nothing in the world’s more expensive than free.

Character: The Deacon

If you want to neutralize a threat, give it a job.

Character: Howard 'Bunny' Colvin

F*** you? Naw, son, I’m gonna make you.

Character: R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis

Everybody likes everybody when they’re kissing.

Character: William 'Bunk' Moreland

Lambs go to slaughter. A man, he learns when to walk away.

Character: The Greek

The past is always with us. And where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it, all that s*** matters.

Character: D'Angelo Barksdale

If you go in with the idea you’re just gonna eat around the edges, you never get a meal.

Character: Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski

They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you back out.

Character: James 'Jimmy' McNulty

See, this is the thing that everyone knows and no one says. You follow the drugs, you get a drug case. You start following the money, you don’t know where you’re going.

Character: Cedric Daniels

I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?

Character: Omar Little

You come at the king, you best not miss.

Character: Omar Little

You only got to f*** up once. Be a little slow, be a little late. Just once. And how you ain’t gonna never be slow, never be late? You can’t plan for no sh*t like this, man. It’s life.

Character: Avon Barksdale

A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.

Character: Lester Freamon

Let’s go home.

Character: James 'Jimmy' McNulty