Midge Daniels quotes from Mad Men

Midge Daniels

[to Don on the phone as Peggy listens] I want you to pull my hair and ravish me and leave me for dead.

Don Draper

We should get married.

Midge Daniels

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

So, what do you do, Don?

Don Draper

I blow up bridges.

Midge Daniels

Don's in advertising.

No way. Madison Avenue? What a gas!

Midge Daniels

We all have to serve somebody.

Perpetuating the lie. How do you sleep at night?

Don Draper

On a bed made of money.

Midge Daniels

Isn't this an education!

You hucksters in your tower created the religion of mass consumption.

Don Draper

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.

When you say "people", I have a feeling you're talking about thou.

Don Draper

And I have a feeling that you spent more time on your hair this morning [points to Midge] than she did.

Dig. Ad man's got a heart.

Midge Daniels

The grown-ups are talking.

Don't defend him. [to Don] Toothpaste doesn't solve anything. Dacron sure as hell won't bring back those ten dead kids in Biloxi.

Don Draper

Neither will buying some Tokaj wine and leaning up against a wall in Grand Central pretending you're a vagrant.

You know what it's like to watch all you ants go into your hive? I wipe my ass with the Wall Street Journal.

How come every time we have a party the ladies have to sit and listen to the men talk?

Look at you. Satisfied, dreaming up jingles for soap flakes and spot remover, telling yourself you're free.

Don Draper

Oh, my God. Stop talking and make something of yourself.

Like you? You make the lie. You invent want. You're for them... not us.

Don Draper

Well, I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.