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Niles Crane quotes from Frasier

Played by David Hyde Pierce · 235 quotes · page 8 of 16

Niles Crane

Played by David Hyde Pierce

Frasier · 546 quotes

2nd most-quoted character in Frasier: in 235 of its 546 quotes
Most scenes with: Frasier Crane (131), Martin Crane (35), Daphne Moon (25)

Scenes with Niles Crane 196

Niles is finding this new spontaneous attitude to dating quite exhilarating

Feel like a new man?

Niles

I feel like a new woman, and thank God I remembered to pack one!

S4 E13 Four for the Seesaw
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Maris phones Niles to tell him he cannot see other people

Niles

You see what's happening here?

Yes. Your ex-wife is ruining my sex life!

S4 E13 Four for the Seesaw
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Niles

[about his new pet bird] She's very exotic. She only eats every other day, and she's so white she's almost blue.

Geez, I'm gettin' nervous. That's what he said just before he introduced us to Maris!

S4 E14 To Kill a Talking Bird
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Niles is back from a wedding in the woods. Daphne finds that his shoulder is sticky and wonders why. Frasier asks if he took a date

Niles

I asked Maris.

Sap.

I think Daphne speaks for us all.

S4 E15 Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein are Dead
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Frasier and Niles are at Café Nervosa discussing the impending softball game. Frederick and Daphne arrive from the amusement park

So you see the problem?

Niles

I certainly do!

No, that's your problem!

S4 E16 The Unnatural
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(in a spooky voice) Nightmare Inn.

Oh, don't tell me, I know. A bunch of people get caught in a storm and everyone's wondering who's gonna be the first one murdered.

Exactly. And I'm going to direct.

Niles

So we can stop wondering.

S4 E18 Ham Radio
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Frasier is very proud after being asked out by two women; Niles is bitter because no one will look twice at him

My God, I've never had a night like this in my entire life! I'm a babe magnet, I'm catnip!

Niles

I think I feel a furball coming up.

S4 E19 Three Dates and a Breakup
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[about Sherry] She says I'm too rigid.

Niles

Nonsense!

And that I'm too picky.

Niles

Poppycock!

And that I'd be much happier if I just went out and had sex with someone...

Niles

Just to play devil's advocate...

S4 E20 Daphne Hates Sherry
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Niles has had a panic attack and rushed into the bathroom. After a sound resembling a gunshot, he emerges covered head to foot in shaving foam

Dr. Crane! Are you all right?

Niles

(shaken) I'm fine. Just a little hot…and foamy…

You know what must've happened? My Hot & Foamy must have exploded!

He was a detective, you know(!)

S4 E21 Are You Being Served?
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Niles is keeping Frasier waiting for their squash game, by having a doting phone conversation with Maris. Frasier takes action

Niles

Oh, now, Maris. (phone beeps) Wait, hold on a second, it’s my other line. (switches lines) Hello?

(using his landline) Get the hell off the phone!

S4 E22 Ask Me No Questions
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Pressing Frasier for an answer to his question, Niles poses a hypothetical situation for him, in which his brother is God

Niles

Let's say you are the supreme ruler of Heaven and Earth. What would you do?

(glances at Eddie) Well, for starters I'd issue a recall on some of my lesser species!

S4 E22 Ask Me No Questions
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I was just about to step right out of this dress and embarrass poor Dr. Crane to death.

Niles

Well, we all have to die of something.

S4 E23 Odd Man Out
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I just can't picture Maris in Dad's '82 Impala.

Niles

Neither could she, at first. I'll never forget the look of wonder on her face at touching vinyl for the first time. She said it made her feel cheap and dirty, and she liked it. I was her first bad boy.

S4 E23 Odd Man Out
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Neither Niles nor Martin believe Frasier's story that he is dating a supermodel

Niles

Doesn't he realize how outlandish it all sounds?

Even a fake supermodel would have dumped him by now!

S5 E1 Frasier's Imaginary Friend
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I thought you were getting me a Sherlock Holmes outfit. He didn't wear a bowler.

Niles

Well, they were all out of Sherlock Holmes, so I put together something else for you. Don't worry, it's another detective. Tonight, you'll be Lord Peter Wimsey!

Who the hell's that?

Niles

He's a celebrated bon vivant sleuth from a series of novels by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Well, I'm not going anywhere where I have to tell people my name's Wimsey!

S5 E3 Halloween
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