Peggy Carter quotes from Agent Carter

Peggy Carter

It's so hard getting straight answers out of people nowadays. Whatever happened to a nice cup of tea and a civilized interrogation?

Peggy Carter

[to Dooley] You think you know me, but I've never been more than what each of you has created. To you, I'm the stray kitten, left on your doorstep to be protected. The secretary turned damsel in distress. The girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore. You're behaving like children. What's worse, what's far worse is that this is just shoddy police work.

Jack Thompson

If you don't mind, these surveillance reports need to be filed, and you're really so much better at that kind of thing.

Peggy Carter

What kind of thing is that, Agent Thompson? The alphabet? I can teach you. Let's start with words beginning with "A".

Peggy Carter

You can't be serious.

Howard Stark

I try not to be, but sometimes it just slips out anyway.

Peggy Carter

You're new to espionage, aren't you?

Edwin Jarvis

Far from it. Last summer, I caught the cook pocketing the good spoons.

Peggy Carter

Comfortable back there, Mr. Jarvis?

Edwin Jarvis

Perfectly, thank you. These racks of explosives have distracted me from the smell of stale milk.

Edwin Jarvis

Your line of work requires support. People who care about your well-being, who'll be there to stitch up your wounds.

Peggy Carter

If I allow people to get close to me, I'm putting them in danger.

Edwin Jarvis

So your solution is to remove yourself from the world you wish to protect? Where's the sense in that? There is not a man or woman, no matter how fit he or she may be, who is capable of carrying the entire world on their shoulders.

Peggy Carter

Steve was.

Edwin Jarvis

From what Mr. Stark has told me, Captain Rogers relied heavily on you for courage, strategy, and moral guidance. You were his support. Your desire to help others is noble. But I doubt you'll find much success unless you allow others to help you.

Edwin Jarvis

In polite society, one telephones ahead before trespassing.

Peggy Carter

I imagine strange women traipsing through the property isn't a completely unusual occurrence.

Edwin Jarvis

That's a fair point.

Edwin Jarvis

Mr. Stark believed the intruder had some advanced technological assistance.

Peggy Carter

Mr. Stark believes brushing your teeth requires advanced technological assistance.

Howard Stark

I grew up on the Lower East Side. My father sold fruit. My mother sewed shirtwaists for a factory. Let me tell you, you don't get to climb the American ladder without picking up some bad habits on the way. There's a ceiling for certain types of people based on how much money your parents have, your social class, your religion, your sex. And the only way to break through that ceiling sometimes is to lie, so that's my natural instinct. To lie. I shouldn't have lied to you. For that, trust me, I am truly sorry.

Peggy Carter

Why did you have Steve's blood in the first place?

Howard Stark

I was one of the lead scientists on Project Rebirth. Eleven vials went to the government, one vial went to me. Does the SSR know they have the vial?

Peggy Carter

Why shouldn't they have it?

Howard Stark

The government's almost through their supply. If they know they have mine, they'll never give it back. Even if you clear my name.

Peggy Carter

That still doesn't mean you deserve to have Steve's blood.

Peggy Carter

You know, I believe that sample SR-53, that blood, Captain America's blood, holds the key to vaccines, medications, possibly even a cure for the common cold. Steve Rogers may not still be with us, but he can still save millions of people.

Peggy Carter

And how many millions of dollars are you set to make?

Howard Stark

What the hell do you think of me?

Peggy Carter

I think you're a man out for his own gain no matter who you're charging. You are constantly finding holes to slither your way into in the hope of finding loose change, only to cry when you're bitten by another snake. You're a man who says, "I love you," whilst looking over a woman's shoulder into the mirror. Steve Rogers dedicated his mind, his body, his life to the SSR and to this country, not to your bank account. I made the same pledge, but I'm not as good as Steve was. I forgot my pledge running around for you like a corporate spy. So thank you, Howard, for reminding me who Steve was and what I aspire to be. For all I know, you did steal your inventions.

Edwin Jarvis

[about Stark] He can be thoughtless. Inconsiderate. Vain. Childish. Unreliable. Arrogant.

Peggy Carter

You flatter him.

Peggy Carter

Does anyone else feel a chill going up their knickers?

I would if I wore knickers.

What would Cap say if I left his best girl behind?

Peggy Carter

He'd say "Do as Peggy says."

Wahoo!

Peggy Carter

Stop wahooing and help!

Peggy Carter

You think Ginger Rogers is a Russian assassin?

Edwin Jarvis

You should have seen her eyes when I escorted her from Mr. Stark's villa. The darkest gates to the abyss.