Don Draper quotes from Mad Men

Don

[to Megan] I want you at work, because I want you.

Don

[to Megan] I married you, and I'm gonna be with you until I die...which could be this afternoon.

Don

Last year at this time, whether you knew it or not, survival of this company was on the line. And I look at the faces in this room who have given their all to this tenuous recovery, and I say, prepare to take a great leap forward. Prepare to swim the English channel and then drown in champagne. There are six weekends between now and the pitch. We're going to spend them all here. We will celebrate Christmas here. We will ring in the New Year together. And in the end we will represent Jaguar and it will be worth it. Every agency on Madison Avenue is defined by the moment they got their car. When we land Jaguar, the world will know we've arrived.

Don

[to the partners] I already said no, or should I leave so you all can do whatever you want?

Don

[to Megan] You wanna be somebody's discovery, not somebody's wife.

Don

[to Pete] I wish you would handle clients as well as you're handling me.

Don

The greatest thing you have working for you is not the photo you take or the picture you paint; it's the imagination of the consumer. They have no budget, they have no time limit, and if you can get into that space, your ad can run all day.

Don

I never wanted to be the man who loves children, but... from the moment they're born... that baby comes out, and you act proud and excited, hand out cigars... but you don't feel anything, especially if you had a difficult childhood. You want to love them, but you don't. And the fact that you're faking that feeling makes you wonder if your father had the same problem. Then they get older, and you see them do something, and you feel that feeling that you've been pretending to have. You feel like your heart is going to explode.

Don

[to Sally] You're a very beautiful girl. It's up to you to be more than that.

Don Draper

We should get married.

Midge Daniels

You think I'd make a good ex-wife?

Don

Except they aren't.

That's your slogan? "You're going to die anyway. Die with us"?

Pete

Actually, it's a fairly well-established psychological principle that society has a death wish, and if we could just tap into that, the market potential is--

What the hell are you talking about? Are you insane? I'm not selling rifles here, I'm in the tobacco business! We're selling America! The Indians gave it to us, for shit's sake!

Don Draper

Let me ask you something, what do women want?

Roger Sterling

Who cares?

It's hard to get caught in a lie.

Don Draper

It wasn't a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover.

Roger Sterling

I bet there were people in the Bible walking around, complaining about "kids today."

Don Draper

Kids today, they have no one to look up to. 'Cause they're looking up to us.

Pete Campbell

I have ideas.

Don Draper

I'm sure you do. Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.