Quentin Lance quotes from Arrow

Quentin

[about The Count] You could have just said he was nuts.

Quentin

Any idea what these guys were so hot to break in here for? You didn't happen to leave a spare earthquake machine lying around, did you? [Oliver stares] Sorry.

Quentin

What this city needs is somebody who can stand out in the light of day, not lurk around in the shadows. You said you were gonna be different this time, huh? How?

Quentin

We're all desperate. We've been made to do desperate things. Terrible things. But I've gotta believe that we are not beyond redemption. I've gotta believe that this city can still be saved cause once we stop believing that's when this city really dies and us right along with it. Maybe, just maybe... We start saving our home by saving ourselves first.

Quentin Lance

[speaking in 2014] Well, I'm, I'm conflicted about this, I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm a police officer, duly sworn. I don't condone vigilantes or vigilantism. [gets emotional] Once people start taking the law into their own hands, you're on the road to anarchy.... But there's worse things out there than anarchy, and sometimes, as much as I hate to admit it... [choking up] the police aren't enough to deal with it all.

Laurel

I'm a lawyer. I live to argue.

Quentin Lance

I'm your father. I live to keep you safe.

Laurel

I thought I didn't need police protection any more.

Quentin

I thought I didn't need a reason to see my own daughter.

Oliver

Oh, look at these. What sort of business has a lost and found that's just filled with women's underwear?

Tommy

Best business ever? Ohh, having this much fun should be against the law.

Quentin

Oh, if wishing made it so.

Quentin

You look after them, all right?

Tommy

I spend most nights at your daughter's anyway. [beat] There was probably a better time to tell you that.

Quentin

Probably not.

Quentin

Arrows are black, not green.

Copycat archer again.

Quentin

Psychopaths are color-coding themselves now. That's helpful.

Quentin

You're not exactly a hardened criminal, are you?

Felicity

No, I'm not any kind of criminal.

Quentin

What do you call computer hacking?

Felicity

A hobby. That I do not engage in.

Quentin

What the hell are you doing? I thought you were done killing people!

Arrow

He'll live.

Quentin

Yeah, but he'll report me to my lieutenant!

Arrow

He won't talk to anyone.

Quentin

What makes you so sure?

Arrow

Because he has another shoulder. [digs the arrow deeper into Daniel's shoulder]

Quentin

So how did you get the charges dropped?

Laurel

Your friend Pike and I have been working together on the anti-vigilante task force. Do you remember?

Quentin

Hmm. Last year you were working with the Arrow. What a difference a few months makes.

Laurel

The Arrow?

Quentin

Yeah. Seems more appropriate than the Hood.

Guns are a coward's weapon. What are you without your sidearm?

Quentin

[draws from an ankle holster and shoots assassin] A guy with a spare.

Sara

I'm sorry you saw that. I can't imagine what you must think of me.

Quentin

I think you're a survivor. I think you're one of the bravest people I've ever known. You're my daughter. It's time for you to come back home.