[speaking to a client] Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus. You already know about Jesus, either he lives in your heart or he doesn't.
S1 E8The Hobo Code
S1 E9Shoot
Peggy, this isn't China. There's no money in virginity.
What else is there?
I don't know. Life being lived? I'd like to stop talking about it and get back to it.
[about her mother] I miss her. I understand that. It's good and bad. She wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There's nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit and smoke and let it go till you're in a box?
S1 E10Long Weekend
Remember, Don...when God closes a door, he opens a dress.
You know what my father used to say? "Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face."
[to Pete Campbell] The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
[a few minutes later]
The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
You don't really believe that.
The president is a product. Don't forget that.
[after suffering a heart attack] All these years I thought it would be the ulcer. I did everything they told me, I drank the cream, ate the butter. Then I get hit with a coronary.
S1 E11Indian Summer
Look, I want to tell you something because you're very dear to me and I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides.
Stop it.
Those people - in Manhattan - they are better than us. Because they want things they haven't seen.
S1 E12Nixon Vs. Kennedy
BCBert Cooper
[to Pete] The Japanese have a saying: a man is whatever room he is in, and right now Donald Draper is in this room.
What are you doing? Where are you going?
I'm going to take care of this right now.
Is this some sort of thing like in the movies where I have a gun and you don't think I'm going to shoot you? I will shoot you.
Why can't you give me what I want? I've earned this job. I deserve it.
Why? Because your parents are rich? Because you went to prep school and have a $5.00 haircut? You've been given everything. You've never worked for anything in your life.
S1 E13The Wheel
[to Peggy about her new job] I said congratulations, didn't I? Although, sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were.
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