Peggy Olson quotes from Mad Men

Peggy

Those people - in Manhattan - they are better than us. Because they want things they haven't seen.

Peggy Olson

[to Don] You'll have to believe me that I'll forget this. I don't want you treating me badly because I remind you of it.

Peggy Olson

A Night to Remember is every girl's dream. It holds the wholesome promise of the kind of hand holding that eventually leads to marriage.

Peggy Olson

Pete, just tell the truth, don't worry about the outcome. People respect that.

Peggy Olson

Well, one day you're there and then all of a sudden there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it's living somewhere outside of you, and you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize, it's just gone.

Peggy Olson

The thing is, I have a job. I have my own office, with my name on the door. And I have a secretary--that's you. And I am not scared of any of this.

Peggy Olson

[to Pete] Stop barging in here and infecting me with your anxiety.

Peggy Olson

[to Don] You know something. We are all here because of you. All we want to do is please you.

Peggy Olson

I mean, I know what I'm supposed to want, but it just never feels right, or as important as anything in that office.

Peggy

I have to say, most of the things Negroes can't do, I can't do either...and nobody seems to care.

Peggy

[about Megan] I think she's good at everything. I think she's just one of those girls.

Peggy

[To Don, who is gloomy while the rest celebrate the Jaguar account win] You really have no idea when things are good, do you?

Pete Campbell

You ever been hunting, Peggy?

Peggy Olson

No, I don't think so.

Pete Campbell

You either have or you haven't. I went a couple of times. With my uncle. New Hampshire.

I saw my cousin shoot a rabbit by Coney Island.

Pete Campbell

It's an incredible sensation. You have to be very quiet. Take it down with the first shot or you scare it away. Then sometimes you have to go up and finish it off. Then you tie it to the bumper and go home. But do you know what I've always wanted to do? I would pick it up, throw its back legs over my shoulder, and I would drag it through the snow to this little cabin. And there, I'd hang it up between a couple of trees, cut it open, and drain it, dress it. Then I'd take my big hunting knife and I'd cut this loin right out the side. And I'd go into the cabin and there'd be this woman waiting for me. Standing by one of those old stoves with a big black pipe. And I'd hand it to her and she'd put it in a cast iron skillet and then I'd sit at the table. And she'd bring it to me. And I'd wipe my knife on my knee. And then I would eat it. While she watches.

That would be wonderful.

Peggy Olson

Sex sells.

Don Draper

Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and stick it in a briefcase, completely unaware that their success depends on something more than shoeshine. You are the product. You feeling something. That's what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can't do what we do and they hate us for it.

Hey Brooklyn, come home with me!

Peggy Olson

Nuh-uh.

Why not? I live alone.

Peggy

Why should I?

Because I like you and we're having a good time and I'm a good kisser and you know you want to.

Peggy

Eugene, I'm in the persuasion business, and frankly I'm disappointed by your presentation.