house of cards (US) starters
from the first season.
content warning: violence, sexuality, profanity, gendered slurs.
❝ I have no patience for useless things. ❞
❝ I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood. ❞
❝ Wait. We’re in a very gray area. Ethically. Legally. Which I’m okay with – ❞
❝ We’re in the same boat now. Take care not to tip it over. I can only save one of us from drowning. ❞
❝ Centuries from now, when people watch this footage, who will they see smiling just at the edge of the frame? ❞
❝ They talk while I sit quietly and imagine their lightly salted faces frying in a skillet. ❞
❝ Such a waste of talent. ❞
❝ What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade, hold it at just the right angle, and then 3, 2, 1– ❞
❝ Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this. ❞
❝ Treading water is the same as drowning, for people like you and me. ❞
❝ I know all about hate. ❞
❝ Maybe it’s best he died so young. He wasn’t doing much but taking up space. ❞
❝ You don’t have to lecture me like a little girl. ❞
❝ You’ve got a long way to go. Don’t be so arrogant. ❞
❝ It’s so refreshing to work with someone who’ll throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth. ❞
❝ I don’t think you appreciate anything. I think you’re an ungrateful, self-entitled little c– ❞
❝ Friends make the worst enemies. ❞
❝ Nobody tells me when to work and when to play. ❞
❝ That’s a rookie mistake. ❞
❝ Are you letting pride cloud your judgment? ❞
❝ I promise you’ll never be bored. ❞
❝ The most you’ll ever make of yourself is blowing men like me. ❞
❝ I can smell the cock on your breath from here. ❞
❝ You think you can get under my skin? ❞
❝ You’re too intimidating. ❞
❝ Do you get off on this or something? ❞
❝ There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth. ❞
❝ I have to be ruthless, because failure is not an option. ❞
❝ So, you’re fuckin’ my son? ❞
❝ Here’s another truth that’s gonna be hard to swallow: I’m all you’ve got. ❞
❝ I’m not going to lie. I despise children. There. I’ve said it. ❞
❝ So, a piece of advice as far as career strategies go: It’s not worth fucking your way to the middle. ❞
❝ Proximity to power deludes some into believing they wield it. ❞
❝ A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power. ❞
❝ I have zero tolerance for betrayal, which they will soon indelibly learn. ❞
❝ You don’t understand, I’m not afraid of you anymore. ❞
❝ Such a shame, how naive you are. ❞
❝ I just thought I should open those big bright eyes. ❞
❝ You want me to teach you? ❞
❝ I wanted to be significant. ❞
❝ I envy your free spirit, and I’m attracted to it, but not all of us have that luxury. ❞
❝ What I chose was a man I could love for more than a week. ❞
❝ Fact, I have something that you want. You have something that I want. ❞
❝ Have I said something amusing? ❞
❝ He doesn’t measure his wealth in private jets, but purchased souls. ❞
❝ Of all the things I hold in high regards, rules are not one of them. ❞
❝ Are you even capable of language, or do you only understand depravity? ❞
❝ Have the courage in death that you never had in life. ❞
❝ I pray to myself, for myself. ❞
❝ I won’t let people like you fuck up the world my child has to live in. ❞
❝ Am I an enemy you want to make? ❞
❝ You can’t purchase loyalty. Not the sort I have in mind. ❞